Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They are separated by 150 miles and Israel, their avowed common enemy. But the proposed state answers to the most emotional political idea in the Middle East-the cherished Arab dream that Arab-speaking peoples should cast off the artificial borders imposed on them by the colonial powers, and assert the essential unity of "the Arab Nation...
California, the land of cults and characters, had seen youth assert itself before--when Upton Sinclair almost captured the state house and Hiram Johnson clicked his heels in the Capitol. California, the political incubator for Knowlands, Knights, and Nixons, endured in its weary Western way the assault of the amateurs...
...Sullivans maintain that the area is, in its present function, not as useful to the city as it might be. They assert that a modern industrial center of about 60 acres might be built on the land which is now under water. That the water backed up as a result of piling operations might flood numerous cellars all along the Charles, or that the plan would eliminate one of the metropolitan area's most used and sightly parks, the Sullivans fail to mention...
Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his aristocratic background; others point to democratic tendencies. Some claim he had few friends; others assert he mixed well with people...
...average student in GSAS, for example, has an extremely limited income. The frequent "no children" restriction adds to the graduate student's dilemma. Landlords are not entirely to blame here; an over-whelming percentage of them ask if the child is of school age. If he is not, they assert, complaints are received from other tenants on the grounds that they are prevented from studying...