Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rival tribesmen took up arms to help fight the rebel Druses. The government, growing bolder, made so many arrests that movie houses had to be commandeered for auxiliary jails. Some 12,000 Syrians were transported to the border and dumped into Syria. But the Chamoun government, still unable to assert authority in many places, had yet to round up any opposition leaders, and some observers began to say that the crisis might just peter out in victory for nobody, but at the cost of at least 150 lives...
...remedy these implications, to define the meaning of some of the honors provisions, and to assert the value of House tutorial groups, the Faculty must amend the legislation on which it will vote today. Even if the meeting must last beyond the civilized six o'clock adjournment hour, these provisions should be made...
...Throughout its history," the Corporation explained, "Harvard has felt obligated to provide a place of Christian worship for members of the University community. In continuing to do so, the University does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed...
Witness Mack started his testimony last week bravely enough. Said he: "I assert categorically'that my relations with Mr. Whiteside, going back over many years, had nothing whatsoever to do with my vote in the Miami Channel 10 case. I at no time, directly or indirectly, pledged my vote to Thurman Whiteside, to Public Service Television, Inc. [the National Airlines subsidiary], or to any of the other three applicants in that proceeding." Even without his vote, he noted, there was an FCC majority for National: "Public Service would have won even had I not voted...
...Radcliffe News, for you, is a must. Otherwise how can you know the news of the day at Radcliffe." It is extremely dubious that a Thursday evening paper with a Monday afternoon deadline can give anyone the "news of the day." The present editors of the News repeatedly assert that they are not in competition with any dailies in the Harvard community...