Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the purpose of foreign aid is to help nations secure economic and political independence, and then resort to petty blackmail when they assert their independence? If our form of government and our economic system are truly great, we should permit others to test our noble intentions...
...President also became increasingly exasperated by the performance of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Says Schlesinger: "At White House conferences Rusk would sit calmly by, with his Buddhalike face and his half-smile, often leaving it to Bundy or to the President himself to assert the diplomatic interest. He rarely seemed to have strong views as to what should be done beyond continuing what we were already doing, and he rarely argued a position." Kennedy, says Schlesinger, was "impressed by Rusk's capacity to define but grew increasingly depressed by his reluctance to decide...
...clinics" in slum neighborhoods, where volunteer attorneys would offer their services to the people. While the bar is not yet convinced that it ought to rewrite its code of ethics, the A.B.A. did agree that "the poor must not only be educated to their legal rights, but stimulated to assert them...
...organized to affirm, to assert in ways that are "refreshingly radical," and to interrogate further a group of cultural and historical aspirations which we believe we share. This, in a world and a country whose affairs are as confused as ours, is an arduous, conflicted, and often painful task. The rational task is made all the more difficult because, when we dare to think that we might be coming to terms with others as human beings, we discover that basic terms of our discussion--the "racial" definitions that have brought us thus far through history--themselves divide us emotionally into...
...faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that some better word might have to be found...