Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that the war would move south for the winter? Britons hoped so-for this would give Britain's Navy her first chance in the war for a real fight. In the Mediterranean, they were sure, Britain could and would assert her naval supremacy...
...show that late in July two-thirds of the American people favored conscription. I shall not say that the Gallup Poll is meaningless in its results on most questions, although I have yet to see or hear of any person interviewed by a Gallup Poller, but I do assert that the Gallup Poll on conscription on which you rely is meaningless because it is weighted. You fail to point out that the question asked was: "Do you think every able-bodied man 20 years old should be made to serve in the army, navy or air force for one year...
Merriman concluded by saying, "There is feeling enough against Hitler in Germany so that if he fails anywhere, the tide will turn against him. There are some human beings left in Germany. If they're given a chance, they'll assert themselves...
...gentlemen of the Class of 1917 assert that the duty of every citizen to bear arms in defense of his country is not open to discussion. But they agree that the country's policy is a fit subject for though and discussion by every citizen. It is this subject with which the petition deals. The document, signed by hundreds of Harvard students, is not an ironbound pacifist ukase. Behind it is the reasoned conviction that the way in which America drifted toward war in those years was unintelligent and unworthy of our nation. These are the footsteps we are determined...
...great tragic character of the screen, even her victory is tragic. She can win it only by losing everything. But faced with hunger, homelessness, death, she sees that none of these was important. Ma is the incarnation of the dignity of human being, and the courage to assert it against odds...