Word: assertional
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...This is an organization in which Republicans and Independents may assert their support for President Johnson without necessarily identifying themselves with the Democratic Party," Walter S. Mack Jr. '65, chairman, explained last night. The Harvard-Radcliffe chapter is affiliated with a New York-based national organization, formed by prominent Republicans and Independents who oppose Sen. Goldwater...
...superpowers' spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain are pulsating with new polarities and priorities, groping in new directions at the same time they increasingly assert their pride in old nationhoods...
...Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington favored New York, to clip General Clinton; Rochambeau favored the Chesapeake, to complete the investment of Cornwallis at Yorktown...
Although some Cambridge citizens assert that the rats--or whatever they are--come from the Charles, some have suggested that they come from Boston, where demolition of buildings is taking place. "At any rate," Vellucci said, "we should find out, and curb what threatens to a bigger problem...
...Quang, a frail, hot-eyed monk who heads the Institute of Buddhist Clergy. Quang has managed to confuse everyone about his political loyalties, but he masterminded last summer's Buddhist strategy against Diem and is now thought to be a leader of the militant monks exhorting Buddhists to "assert" themselves. What worries the U.S. is the possibility that they will assert themselves for neutralism-and the question of why they have failed to assert themselves against Communism...