Word: assertional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposing any new federal health legislation whatsoever--including Republican bills for aid to voluntary associations. At the same time, the Association has reported that only 20 percent of the public can meet the cost even of minor illnesses without outside help. For the other four-fifths, the doctors assert, present organizations for voluntary insurance are sufficient...
...Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
Before 1865, the College was considerably less independent than it has been since, and the state archives are full of pamphlets in which Harvard was trying to assert itself...
While Harvard Square is one of Greater Boston's cleanest, it nevertheless sustains a handful of punks who make their living exclusively on bookmaking. Police assert that a certain "gentleman" operates openly from a table in a large cafeteria on Massachusetts Avenue. Plainclothesmen have kept an eye on him for a long time, but they can't touch this pimply-faced operator because he uses the prevalent "telephone" system. This means that he either stands outside or sits inside the cafeteria with a pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere...
FPCommissioners urged Congress to pass a bill once more exempting the independents. Even the then Commissioner Leland Olds, a zealot for regulation, approved FPC's stand that it would not "assert such jurisdiction." Less than a year later, Olds and the commission changed their minds. In October 1948 they started proceedings against the natural gas 'affiliate of Phillips Petroleum Co., which has the biggest gas reserves of any independent gas producer, to test their power to fix the price of gas in the field...