Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quickly, however, the Crimson began to assert itself, passing much better, and moving the ball ground. But Harvard's scoring chances did not produce any goals. Late in the half, Chris Papagianis had an open net shot but a Ram fullback alertly cleared the ball. Harvard's superior skills enabled it to dribble circles around Ram defenders, but an inability to use the wings effectively and a subsequent massing in the center prevented the Crimson from taking many shots on goal...
...contact with reality, leaving behind a nightmare world of the psyche, where things are "true, even if they never really happened," is a much more convincing conclusion to a book that takes both the full character and the existence of the outside world into account. The Chief learns to assert himself on stage, too, but only inside the four walls of the ward, and not within the confines of his mind. Stepping through the window, he would merely end up back-stage, not on the road back to normal life. He would not be able to fly over the cuckoo...
Today's game at Princeton may see a quarterback who does like to throw the ball -- Mike Holt -- assert himself. If Crone is hurting or playing badly. Restic said that he will not hesitate to replace him with Holt. Holt is an inexperienced sophomore, and according to Restic, he can be erratic, which may continue to wreck Harvard's offensive consistency. However, he is Harvard's smoothest quarterback, an option-type passer who whips the ball, and his cockiness may spark the team...
Last week Thompson disclosed that its third quarter was the worst in memory. Profits fell from $959,000 in the same quarter last year to $70,000. Much of the decrease, agency officials assert, was caused by rising costs and an earnings decline in the company's Puerto Rican insurance subsidiary. But Thompson's profits also dropped in the first half, and at the nine-month mark they totaled $2.8 million, down 37% from a year earlier. Billings in the third quarter, at around $169 million, held about even with a year ago, but for all 1972 they...
...philosophy and psychology; his earliest books were on literature and history. He admits, in The Archaeology of Knowledge, that he's acutely embarrassed by the question of whether this latest work is history or philosophy, and finally decides that it is neither. In the last analysis. Foucault would probably assert that he stands where it is necessary in order to radically alter the shape of our knowledge; that he works not just in the gaps between areas of inquiry but on a level beneath them...