Word: assertional
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...Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could not only assert a similar claim but even believe that at last a point in history had come when the sun would stay obligingly at full noon...
This is how many Czechs explain Jan Masaryk's death. Maybe, we are not right. Nobody can assert it. We would prefer to mourn for him without speaking about his motives. But we cannot help feeling offended by those who comment upon his death by the words, "Too late, but still...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...young (37) White House physician was there to assert that he was an utter ignoramus about his speculation in the commodity markets. He almost succeeded in proving it. Although he was a trader on margin, he said he did not know the meaning of the term "margin" (a woman sitting behind him snickered: "That's what you spread on bread...
...leaders. A music strike, unlike a coal strike, caused little or no public suffering; in fact it hardly diluted the endless flow of recorded sound which dinned daily in the nation's ears. As international president of A.F.M., Petrillo assumed unlimited power. The union's bylaws solemnly assert: "It shall be his duty ... to (a) enforce the constitution, bylaws, standing resolutions or other laws and resolutions or (b) annul or set aside same or any portion thereof . . . and substitute other . . . provisions of his own making. . . ." He began making war on a grander scale...