Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus a fissure widened between the men who cannot escape the Party label and those who stand ready to assert that they merely endured it. For the former the cue now was: hang on and hope for a stalemate; for the latter: get this war over with as quickly as possible-and make sure the English-speaking armies march into Berlin first...
Says Van Atta: "I'm [now] probably the greatest living authority on Mac-Arthur's strength and able to assert most solemnly that it's still terrific...
...similar problems which will be faced by whatever federation of powers ... emerges from this war. . . . These problems are not 'solved' merely by the declaration that 'imperialism' must be banished from the postwar world. By taking the initiative here, we might be in a position to assert real world leadership in relation to these same problems after the war. On the other hand, by continuing an ostrichlike, do-nothing policy at home, we are certainly inviting another Versailles...
...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...
Introducing the issue in a first page editorial, the editors write "We emphatically assert that the College needs its magazines at this point more than ever before, and it needs above all a political magazine....We feel we have an important task to do--that is to help mobilize the student body of the University in the fight against the Fascist powers aboard and their allies behind our lines...