Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compare Perón's Argentina to a European police state. Socialists, even Communists, could stage street-corner meetings and shout bitterly against the Government, if they dared the stones of exuberant Perónistas. But the press throttle was ominous, even though Perónistas, who blandly assert that the press is free, could point to La Prensa's reprinting excerpts from last week's warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice...
...call the borrower's political and economic shots. "Because you don't like Communism (Canadians don't like it either), you came up with the idea of using the dollar to 'contain' Russian expansion. . . . Because you do not like socialism, many of your leaders assert that the price of helping Britain, or giving the French a lift, must be an undertaking not to carry on ideological experiments with the dollars of the American people...
...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...
Henry A. Wallace will assert "We Can Have Peace" tonight when he addresses an audience that the AVC yesterday predicted would fill the Soldiers Field diamond to the outer limits of its 7,500 capacity. The program, on which the former Vice-President of the United States is the main speaker, will start at 8:30 o'clock...
...felt compelled to assert that "the Communist way is not my way." But it was becoming harder & harder to tell the two ways apart. Cried Wallace...