Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews will stand up and take a stand on abortion and rally to the support of Dr. Kenneth Edelin but they will not assert themselves on the position of Israel in the world and the rights or Soviet Jewry," he said...
...woman-worked institutions of Radcliffe must or should be abandoned in exchange for the increase in women students. They will remain as important to us in the future as they have been in the past. Radcliffe's role is a function of the times. It was created originally to assert that women's education was valid--indeed, important. It must now be supported as an assertion of the importance of our experience as women. That our history is different from that of men is unquestionable; that the history and traditions of a people are significant parts of their changing self...
...should be made subject to formal sanctions, and the argument that such behavior entitles others to prevent speech they might regard as offensive. Our conviction that the central purpose of the university is to foster the free access of knowledge compiles us to reject both of these arguments. They assert a right to prevent free expression. They rest upon the assumption that speech can be suppressed by anyone who deems it false or offensive. They deny what Justice Holmes termed "freedom for the thought that we hate." They make the majority, or any willful minority, the arbiters of truth...
...MIDDLE ATLANTIC: The President was given high marks for taking action, lower grades for the action he took. "Call me relieved," said Baltimore Housewife Betty Lee Digges. "I see the plan as a sign that Mr. Ford is preparing to assert some kind of leadership, instead of just letting the country drift as we have been doing...
Given the freewheeling Playboy lifestyle practiced at both mansions, and the trooping through of all sorts of guests, including rock groups and movie stars, it would be naive indeed for Hefner or anyone to assert that drugs have never been used on his premises (Adrienne Pollack, once a Playboy Bunny, died of an overdose of the drug methaqualone in September 1973). The question is whether Hefner or his staff provided drugs along with the soap and towels. Hefner's associates say that it is highly doubtful that hard drug or even marijuana consumption took place "under Hefner...