Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going to jail is, for the African, as for the American Negro, a way to assert his identity. Another way is to turn to journalism, a path shown to Nakasa by his father, a compositor and free lance newspaperman in Durban on South Africa's East Coast...
These commentators assert that the U.S. is facing a subtle, fiercely imperialistic adversary in the Communist Chinese. The assertion is not without truth. Although this view ignores the fact that Vietnamese peasants, and not Chinese, oppose the U.S. in Vietnam, it clarifies the fact that China stands behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula. There is a Chinese imperialism, just as real as American imperialism, that would gain from U.S. withdrawal...
Never a Malted. "This really is a very simple diet," they assert. "It can be summed up in one sentence: EAT LESS THAN SIXTY GRAMS OF CARBOHYDRATE A DAY. That's all there is to it." (Sixty grams are about two ounces.) At first, say the authors, the dieter will have to consult the tables to avoid ordering lima beans (15 gm. of carbohydrate to an average serving) instead of green beans (a mere 3 gm.). Afterward, they claim, it will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram...
...drinking man's diet also proclaims that protein is not especially fattening. And it goes on to assert that a man can eat almost as much fat as he wants to without worrying about weight, which is untrue and, the authors admit, can be dangerous for people who may be developing heart-artery disease...
...legality of such a set-up, there is a more crucial difficulty. The suggestion would, in effect, transfer control of the paper from one self-interested power center to another. It is naive to suppose that student politicians with power of the purse over the campus newspaper could not assert considerable influence on editorial policy and news coverage...