Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 1979, according to the statements, the couple invited their friend for a holiday at Bertioga, a coastal resort 70 miles east of Sao Paulo. While swimming in the sea, the depositions assert, Mengele, who by then was 67, drowned after suffering a stroke. The Bosserts said that they decided to bury him at the Embu cemetery in a family plot owned by the real Gerhard, who had buried his mother there in 1961. That same year, Wolfram Bossert told the police, "Rolf Mengele came to talk to me, and I handed over (his father's) diaries, documents and personal...
That, at least, was the intention. Last week, however, as the initial euphoria subsided and a new military council installed by Suwar al Dahab began to assert its power, a tangle of uncertainties remained. They were centered on Suwar al Dahab, the council's head and a once trusted aide whom Nimeiri had appointed Supreme Commander of the armed forces just two weeks before his departure for Washington. Had the new leader organized the bloodless coup in defiance of his former chief or to protect the military leadership against a takeover bid by younger, perhaps more radical officers? Would...
Today will determine whether or not the Black and White heavies can re-assert their dominance in Eastern rowing after a sluggish start...
...some, satisfaction comes from just knowing that they can beat their opponents regularly; others enter tournaments to assert their dominance. In Quincy House, where foosball can become a way of life, there is at least one annual foosball tournament...
...weeks), the spinal cord is not far enough developed to pass messages to the brain, and the brain itself does not develop until then the cognitive structure needed to perceive pain or aggression or to perform "purposeful action." It is especially irresponsible for the narrator of the movie to assert that a 12-week fetus could experience pain. Dr. Edwin Myer, chairman of the department of pediatric neurology at the Medical Colege of Virginia, says "that the fetus feels pain is a totally ridiculous statement. Pain implies cognition. There is no brain to receive the information...