Word: asserting
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...else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving to the healthy character. Let all of us without bashfulness assert what the Greeks would find it absurd to suppress...
...year-old quarterback hopes that the Eliot defensive line will treat him with "utmost respect," but what if E-House decides to assert some aggressiveness? After all, as any spectator of House football knows, the possibility certainly exists that things could get a little rough out there...
Zero Option Your story "Getting Together-at Last" [Sept. 28] covering the visit of Secretary of State Alexander Haig to Bonn and Berlin unfortunately misrepresented the position of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic, Helmut Schmidt. You assert that Chancellor Schmidt explained to Haig that the Soviets should dismantle some of the 250 SS-20s already in place, thereby eliminating any need for new NATO missiles. What the Federal Chancellor did was persuade the Secretary of State of the necessity to include the zero option [whereby, in return for the dismantling of all Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe...
Arguing that government has a responsibility to impose and solidify virtue in its citizens, conservative columnist George F. Will last night criticized modern politicians' reluctance to assert social values for the common good...
Their tactics were right, probably more than they ever dreamed. CUE and CHUL remained visible for some time, but in recent years have faded into nothingness. When either body has tried to assert that it is more than a vestigial decision-making organ, the Faculty Council has put it emphatically back in its place...