Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only of peculiar fascination to an age that has witnessed the revival of atrocity. Such conduct is what - in the absence of Shakespearean remorse or classical retribution - psychologically weights the play's later episodes. Tamburlaine is one who, having achieved enormous power, but must almost maniacally assert it: his is no self-preserving ruthlessness or vengeful rancor, but an ego-driven, gratuitous cruelty...
Chouteau Dyer and Gus Johnson will take good charge of the 50 for the visitors, while sophomores Greg Stones and Duane Murner will attempt to assert themselves strongly as varsity divers...
...prove nothing when you assert that Robert Hutchins is no more Communist-minded than Adams or Burke. You could have included Columbus or Pocahontas in your list too. Hutchins has made the Fund a kind of fund for the American Nightmare...
...anyone else would be able to keep order in Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces...
...army; it conferred "war degrees" on undergraduates who had completed only twelve courses; and to Faculty members who entered the service, it gave the difference between their government pay and their former salaries. Clearly, that generation of Harvard men would have little sympathy with those who now assert, as they view the swelling national demand for a college education, that the University has no responsibility to the nation and can simply look the other...