Word: assertional
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...rebuke lay in the timing: one week after the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. charged that federal anti-poverty programs "coerce" the poor into practicing contraception, a number of influential Protestant leaders went on record to assert that they were all for birth control. In a letter to President Johnson, Welfare Secretary John Gardner, and Sargent Shriver of the OEO, the secretary of the United Presbyterians' General Council, Dr. Theophilus Taylor, stated his denomination's support for federal birth control programs, and labeled the bishops' charge as "completely unfounded...
...Minister largely because the Congress Party's political pros reckoned that she would be easy to control. Yet she seemed to confirm that charge two weeks ago when she backed down on three Cabinet changes after running into strong protests from party bosses. Last week, as if to assert her independence, Mrs. Gandhi went right ahead and made some Cabinet changes anyhow...
Moments before adopting the new policy, the Committee voted down an amendment to strike the qualifying phrase. Committeeman Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, and author of the amendment argued that the policy would be clearest and most effective if the Committee did not try assert any power to censor controversial speakers...
...Wiggins, a onetime Post managing editor, a group of scholarly writers achieve a force and clarity that stand out in sharp contrast with the inconclusive, ambiguous prose of most of their competitors. Combining a passion for civil liberties and humanitarian legislation with an appreciation of the U.S. need to assert its power overseas, Post editorialists have often done a better job of explaining President Johnson's Far Eastern policies than the President himself. Without a trace of truculence, they have argued the propositions that, like it or not, the U.S. is an Asian power; that in order to preserve...
Beauty may not be the nation's most urgent issue, but it is significant that in an earlier day, it might have seemed almost frivolous. Today, in a basically affluent society, people have the time and the means to take it seriously. The most earnest liberal reformers now assert that the big challenge, in one form or another, is the quality of the American environment...