Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe the collective end justifies the means," Conant concluded, "we do not assert that the good of may kind demands that an individual be sacrificed to the community...For us, each individual is related to the structure of the universe...
MacArthur cajoled the Cabinet and the Diet into creating a new constitution, which was not only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
...Harvard, as a leading liberal arts college, cannot inspire its undergraduates with the desire to learn, then liberal education would appear to have no place in American life. Surely, unless some way is discovered to light the desire to learn, we will soon no longer be able to assert, along with William James, that students do not come to Harvard primarily because she is a club...
...Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could not only assert a similar claim but even believe that at last a point in history had come when the sun would stay obligingly at full noon...
This is how many Czechs explain Jan Masaryk's death. Maybe, we are not right. Nobody can assert it. We would prefer to mourn for him without speaking about his motives. But we cannot help feeling offended by those who comment upon his death by the words, "Too late, but still...