Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forum, and was carried out to die of a cerebral hemorrhage, his friends and enemies have tried to explain what manner of man he was. Some may agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...
...institutions have bred into the individual German an aggressive concern about his "status" or position. In the family, the father has long been absolute master, sternly dominating his wife and children. Business, the professions, politics and education have likewise been ruled by an authoritarian system in which, to assert and defend his status, a German bullies his inferiors, kowtows to his superiors. "The German alternately commands and scrapes." Unlike Americans and Englishmen, who consider it unsporting to exert their full strength against weaker opponents, Germans are traditionally most brutal and ruthless toward their inferiors. In their relations with other nations...
...text of the statement, entitled "Human Nature and the Peace" is prefaced by the following remarks: "Humanity's demand for lasting peace leads us, as students of human nature, to assert ten pertinent and basic principles which should be considered in planning the peace. Neglect of them may breed new wars, no matter how well-intentioned our political leaders...
Poland. "The Russian claim . . . has always been unchanged for the Curzon Line in the east, and the Russian offer has always been that ample compensation should be gained for Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. ... I assert with the utmost conviction the broad justice of the policy upon which, for the first time, all the three great Allies have now taken their stand. ... A most sovereign declaration has been made by Marshal Stalin and the Soviet Union that the sovereign independence of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined...
...gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Great Britain (militarily) and France (administratively) controlled the canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity. Now a new, incalculable factor threatened to complicate the Suez Canal problem. The Soviet Union was reported to have quietly acquired a sizable block of Suez Canal shares seized by the Germans from Jews. At the next board meeting Russia might well demand that henceforth...