Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that we have met with a grave setback in the last few days." With that uncharacteristic bit of understatement, Gamal Abdel Nasser began his accounting to Egypt and the Arab world in a radio and television address the day after his cease-fire with Israel. Nasser went on to assert that, of course, Israel alone could never have defeated the united legions of Arabia: the U.S. and Britain must have helped. And then his despairing and disbelieving followers heard Nasser announce his resignation from "every official post and every political role." He was, he said, handing the Egyptian presidency over...
...real world, as well as the quality and method of the teaching itself. Secondly, they seek a closer and more significant relationship with the faculty. The desire for a collegial community of scholars, teaching and learning from each other, motivates many of the demands for reform. And finally, students assert that they should play a larger role in determining the educational and administrative policies of their schools...
Finally, they assert that they have the right to participate in shaping the process which so shapes them. They suspect the Establishment of trying to thwart their innovative tendencies, they understand the corruptive effects of power, they believe they must participate in changing the system before it swallows them...
...first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes no claims for her idiom or for her pentameters. "I worked for four months with Shakespeare in front of me," she reports, "so I know the difference between...
Property or Privacy? As the appellate court saw it, Mapp commanded states to follow the federal mere-evidence rule, which stemmed from the idea that the Fourth Amendment protected a person's private property from seizure. Unless the Government or the complainant could assert a superior interest in the property, said Gouled, the suspect was entitled to keep it. Straining to bypass the rule, courts have since typically barred original tax records or checks as the property of the accused and therefore mere evidence-while admitting photographic copies...