Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since you have never paid your dues. . . . If you had read The Churchman during the past 15 years, or even the past year, you would not have been shocked to discover what we have consistently said . . . about . . . the political activities of the Roman hierarchy. . . . It is strange reasoning . . . to assert that a report of facts on freedom of worship in Yugoslavia is openly defending the character and motives of the Tito regime...
Charged with fostering an "economic spy system" for Adolf Hitler, 22 directors of the billion dollar I. C. Farben chemical trust went on trial for war crimes yesterday at Nuernberg, Germany. The Farbon officials heard the U.S. prosecution assert that they had fostered Hitler's war aims, cagerly exploited slave labor, and waged aggressive war from their laboratories...
...delegation visited Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac in prison (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), said: "We assert emphatically that reports of mistreatment of Stepinac were false and provocative. ... He is in good health and there are no restrictions on his religious liberty. ... He says Mass daily in a chapel next to his cell...
Fuseli's most ambitious fantasies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, led one critic to assert that he "expressed the terror and the evanescence of the world of phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...
...type of man willingly admits that he did it and he feels all set up about it. Such a man, says Dr. Reider, often turns out to be a neurotic who has an unconscious desire to assert his virility. There is also the "Don Juan" type who tries to cover up a feeling of inadequacy with a life of carefree promiscuity. Some men, Dr. Reider believes, are even motivated in their illegitimate parenthood by a desire to get married...