Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, March 22, on page 78 you write: "The English . . . want less blowing of their own trumpets by Americans. . . ." On page 79 you assert: "Once American technology was a storehouse of learning that Europe hired . . . but through the years of war and prewar depression the rest of the world changed in its view of what it wanted from the U.S. ... It wanted the essential secret of U.S. enterprise, the quality within it that brought forth on the continent a new nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus...
...confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then...
...78th Congress, after the exciting days of its birth and its blessing by Franklin Roosevelt, got to work on Capitol Hill. Its future now looked a little clearer. This was a Congress full of vim & vinegar, eager to get on with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective...
There are 200 venereal-disease clinics for civilians in England and Wales. But, as in the U.S., no law requires the diseased to go to them. Britain's Defense Regulation 33B makes treatment of venereal diseases compulsory only when two other people can be found who will assert that they have been infected...
...area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands...