Word: assertional
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...crazy if you try to project what they'll do," Getchell said. "Freshman players are very open-ended. I spend the year teaching them an enormous amount of skills, but the kids are uptight as freshmen. They don't know exactly where they stand and can't assert themselves...
...best a scholar can do now is assert that tomorrow's weather will be much the same as today's, then the intellectual in such a setting is dead and in his place civilized mysticism and astrological superstition will flourish most luxuriantly. Here one is not being merely speculative. Oswald Spengler-another famous twentieth-century cynical historian-veers dangerously close to this position. In the second volume of The Decline of the West he wrote that "The regular periodicity of certain events is yet another indication that the cosmic surgings in the form of human life on a small planet...
...play on them to his own advantage. This criticism misses the point of the book entirely. The authors are giving a formula for political success which is not the same thing as public policy, but its prerequisite. No matter what a candidate's ideology or general program, the authors assert he must heed certain realities about the American electorate or lose. The mid-term elections are a case in point...
...Munro felt the team would be up for the game because the players were disappointed with their win over Brown. "Most of them felt we didn't play as well as we should have, so I think they'll be ready to assert themselves," he said...
Constitutional guarantees of civil rights were suspended in Canada last week after French separatists kidnaped officials to dramatize their claim for sovereignty. The southern tip of Italy barricaded itself against the rest of the country to assert a historical fealty to its traditional capital. Northern Ireland continued to smolder among its centuries-old religious hatreds. These and countless other.'atavistic conflicts are now waged with the newest weapons...