Word: assertions
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Undergraduates are normally a resilient group, but the parties and dances Saturday evening were just a bit less noisy and cheerful at the beginning of the evening. But as the night progressed, happiness returned. The calm acceptance that is the heritage of the Harvard football fan had begun to assert itself...
...Francisco's males were a disappointment. A collection of cocktail sippers stuttered over a definition of "femininity," finally decided that whatever was wrong with their wives, the best thing to do was "assert our power and not wash any more dishes." One gallant type, glooming behind a dark, straggling mustache, observed that European women "make a man feel 20 feet tall. I just don't get that satisfaction from the American female. She's reluctant to say anything inspiring to me about my appearance or abilities or talents or whatever." It was all so odd that Hostess...
...quarters, half dollars, bills and personal checks, totaling within a few days more than $20,000. The usually pro-segregationist Arkansas Democrat praised the outpouring, boasted: "That was the true Little Rock, rising out of a mist of half-lights and distortions emanating from our high school troubles to assert the principles that are the inheritance and pride of our people." In the cold loneliness of a man without a cause, even Governor Orval Faubus was moved to call the bombings "sickening and deplorable...
...course, the prevailing state of Blissful Indifference is not entirely the student's fault. Finding himself confronted with an intellectual dilemma, he can either assert without adequate knowledge, or remain silent and ineffective. In addition to appearing the lesser of these two evils, silence is also easier...
...scoop was the real cause of Fleet Street's wrath at De Gaulle: his insistence on regarding West Germany, rather than Britain, as his closest ally. Adenauer and De Gaulle, screamed the Daily Herald, are "the terrible twins . . . two stubborn, jealous, ambitious and misguided old men, determined to assert power and authority in Western Europe...