Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others. Also, polio is so unpredictable a disease that doctors may easily be fooled, and credit a drug for a patient's natural improvement. But, says Dr. Schopp, this admittedly sketchy study indicates that Pyromen helps virus-ravaged nerves to rebuild themselves so that they can again assert control over the muscles...
...boss of the Eisenhower forces, grabbed the telephone to talk to Ike Strategist Henry Cabot Lodge in Beverly, Mass. A transatlantic telephone call crackled through to Ike's headquarters in Paris. Then Duff's office issued a one-sentence statement in Lodge's name: "I can assert authoritatively that nothing happened at the conference between Eisenhower and Stassen to justify any inference whatever that Eisenhower would not be a candidate...
...have the abstract artists we deserve. Like an emetic, they have purged us of a great deal of silly 19th Century sentiment; like a professor of anatomy, they have revealed the permanent, the timeless bones beneath the perishable flesh. Yet the perishable flesh, in all its ephemeral weakness, will assert itself again. The body can be purified by an emetic, but it can't be nourished...
...that belief in "the justice of the courts" is being undermined. Where 19th Century judges scorned to adapt their abstract reasoning to experience and social change, the "realists" of today, stimulated perhaps by hasty readings in Marx and Freud, challenge the worth of any standard except experience. ". . . [Some] assert [the law] is a camouflage of reason covering up ... individual personal prejudices or wishes . . . because human judges cannot keep purely subjective factors from influencing and indeed determining their action...
...course, they will assert for the next few weeks that Britain has repudiated socialism after this abortive experiment. Since the Laborites only received 49.3 percent to the Tories' 48.3 percent, this point is one that will bear and get frequent repetition. It is fraught with significance...