Word: assertional
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...elected President in a landslide by the biggest number of voters in his nation's history. At first he seemed reluctant to assert the authority that is his. Nationalist right-wingers in the Senate, who had climbed back to power on his coattails, openly and often contemptuously opposed him and his administration. Four weeks ago, Magsaysay, at last, came to grips with his arch-opponent in his own party, Senator Claro Recto, 65, a skillful lawyer, neutralist, and determined anti-American, who had done his caustic best to snipe at Magsaysay's policy of friendship...
...three wanted Communists chatted with old friends, munched sweet buns and raisin bread, and two hours later, coolly submitted to arrest. Their case will test the legality of the Occupation's control ordinance, which many legal experts assert was nullified when Japan regained her independence...
...most extraordinary burdens under which American education labors is psychological-namely, the assumption that reform is impossible unless failure is admitted. Thus one who speaks of the great achievements of the past is immediately labeled as one who does not want change. Only those who are ready to assert that all the labor and energy, all the sacrifice and skill, all the character and brains that have been poured into the educational enterprise have resulted in failure are really progressive and ready for new developments. In point of fact the precise reverse is true. Reform proceeds best by capitalizing upon...
Anti-administration arguments, expected today on the House floor, will assert that the bill paves the way to universal military training. Thus far, UMT has never been able to proceed past debate. Lobby groups, including the National Council Against Conscription and the Methodist Church have been waging write-in battles with the Administration for months...
...search for it made the last part of his voyage the loneliest part of all. Albert Einstein, who often said he could not accept the doctrine of immortality of the soul, traveled the rim of mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds...