Word: assertional
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...Jack Paar said that it was the honorable thing for the U.S. to do. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said that it was blackmail. Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt saw it as an opportunity for U.S. humanitarianism to assert itself. Columnist Robert Ruark denounced it as an obscene, criminal proposition. Wherever the average American turned last week-to his television set, his newspaper, his favorite bartender or to his wife-he could get an argument. The subject of controversy: Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion...
Partly as the result of the new market--and perhaps partly to assert the Law School's spiritual independence from Wall Street, the Faculty has adopted a policy of not announcing class standings for other than the first 100 students in a class. Although they will still know the applicants' grades, the big-city firms will no longer be able to rely exclusively on these magic numbers which have become rather meaningless because of the great degree of bunching in the middle of the class...
Seeger's critics among intellectuals and the academic community maintain that his political views are naive and ultra-idealistic. Conceiving of themselves as realists, they assert that folkey good naturedness is no match for tough-minded political analysis...
...organize an objective debate, and which are filled with invective and insults. And then, as the United Nations becomes a, scene of disturbance, confusion and division, it acquires the ambition to intervene in all kinds of matters. This is especially true of its officers. It is anxious to assert itself -even by force of arms-as it did in the Congo. The result is that it carries to the local scene its global incoherence, the personal conceptions of its various agents and the individual partiality of each of the states, which send their contingents with their own orders-send them...
...arguments endorsing the present ban point out the quality of Ivy teams such as last fall's undefeated Yale eleven and assert that Ivy football is not inferior; call the league's present system a healthy and necessary balance between academics; and note to the players the idea of spring football is not as simple as -- "The crews practice all fall, don't they...