Word: assertional
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Witness Mack started his testimony last week bravely enough. Said he: "I assert categorically'that my relations with Mr. Whiteside, going back over many years, had nothing whatsoever to do with my vote in the Miami Channel 10 case. I at no time, directly or indirectly, pledged my vote to Thurman Whiteside, to Public Service Television, Inc. [the National Airlines subsidiary], or to any of the other three applicants in that proceeding." Even without his vote, he noted, there was an FCC majority for National: "Public Service would have won even had I not voted...
...Radcliffe News, for you, is a must. Otherwise how can you know the news of the day at Radcliffe." It is extremely dubious that a Thursday evening paper with a Monday afternoon deadline can give anyone the "news of the day." The present editors of the News repeatedly assert that they are not in competition with any dailies in the Harvard community...
...They are separated by 150 miles and Israel, their avowed common enemy. But the proposed state answers to the most emotional political idea in the Middle East-the cherished Arab dream that Arab-speaking peoples should cast off the artificial borders imposed on them by the colonial powers, and assert the essential unity of "the Arab Nation...
California, the land of cults and characters, had seen youth assert itself before--when Upton Sinclair almost captured the state house and Hiram Johnson clicked his heels in the Capitol. California, the political incubator for Knowlands, Knights, and Nixons, endured in its weary Western way the assault of the amateurs...
...Sullivans maintain that the area is, in its present function, not as useful to the city as it might be. They assert that a modern industrial center of about 60 acres might be built on the land which is now under water. That the water backed up as a result of piling operations might flood numerous cellars all along the Charles, or that the plan would eliminate one of the metropolitan area's most used and sightly parks, the Sullivans fail to mention...