Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashioned squinting method is still a back-bone of current research, however, and to assert this view, the Observatory has invested in a completely redesigned 61-inch reflector telescope, originally built at Harvard...
...think is dangerous" (no, 57%). "While the Jewish-Christian law of love is formally acknowledged, the truly operative factor is the value system embodied in the American Way of Life. Where the American Way of Life approves of love of one's fellow man, most Americans confidently assert that they practice such love; where the American Way of Life disapproves, the great mass of Americans do not hesitate to confess that they do not practice it, and apparently feel very little guilt for their failure...
Last week the time had come to assert the ascendancy of police force over soul force. First Nehru ordered that there be no more satyagraha against Goa. "As a government," he said, "we obviously cannot have satyagraha against another government. Governments do not do that sort of thing." Then, exerting all the strength of his prestige and popularity, Nehru compelled the Congress Party executive to reverse its Goa resolution of last July and vote, ruefully but unanimously, to renounce satyagraha as a method of political action, "whether undertaken individually or collectively...
...elected President in a landslide by the biggest number of voters in his nation's history. At first he seemed reluctant to assert the authority that is his. Nationalist right-wingers in the Senate, who had climbed back to power on his coattails, openly and often contemptuously opposed him and his administration. Four weeks ago, Magsaysay, at last, came to grips with his arch-opponent in his own party, Senator Claro Recto, 65, a skillful lawyer, neutralist, and determined anti-American, who had done his caustic best to snipe at Magsaysay's policy of friendship...
...three wanted Communists chatted with old friends, munched sweet buns and raisin bread, and two hours later, coolly submitted to arrest. Their case will test the legality of the Occupation's control ordinance, which many legal experts assert was nullified when Japan regained her independence...