Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked whether he wished to assert his rights under the Fifth Amendment, Hawkins said he did not. This leaves him open to a possible contempt citation...
...though he has no son. Coselli does have a wife, however: the nurse Jany, who has come to work in the hospital to be near him. Tangled together in their nightmares and obsessions, Bébert and Coselli make their escape from the hospital, frantically trying to assert themselves as free...
...believes that gravitation (i.e., relativity) is the place to start when trying to explain the universe, but he admits that he does not yet have the whole answer. No one has found an experimental method of proving his unified theory. "Nevertheless," he says hopefully, "I consider it unjustified to assert, a priori, that such a theory is unable to cope with the atomistic character of energy...
Evidently, this is another attempt to assert the utter superiority and distinctiveness of the ectomorph--in Harvard's world, at any rate. Everyone knows that the seats in the Stadium, at New Lecture Hall, and at the Indoor Athletic Building were designed solely to accommodate ectomorphs. Now it appears that the style sultans in New York and London are making clothes expressly designed to shrink the masculine form...
...Under these circumstances, must educators limit themselves to vigorous resolutions of opposition to the inquisitorial committees and then appear like sheep for the slaughter? Or may they invoke the historic means of protest against aggression wherever it is found? I see nothing dishonorable in the assertion of the constitutional privilege any more than in reliance on the Fourth Amendment right to suppress evidence unlawfully seized or the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and a jury trial. Were the Puritans dishonorable in refusing to testify against themselves? Could we have censured Professor Lattimores if gifted with foresight, he had assorted...