Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds one of the bums in Waiting for Godot. He can't remember his birthday...
...courses deal. Indeed, a Gen Ed course, by its very nature, should be more careful and detailed in its presentation of material than a departmental course. It should try to provide insights into its material and the way in which the scholar deals with it. It is ridiculous to assert that the student is benefited more by a shallow introduction to many fields, none of which he is likely to pursue farther, rather than a solid understanding of the basic content of a few fields that interest...
...This is an organization in which Republicans and Independents may assert their support for President Johnson without necessarily identifying themselves with the Democratic Party," Walter S. Mack Jr. '65, chairman, explained last night. The Harvard-Radcliffe chapter is affiliated with a New York-based national organization, formed by prominent Republicans and Independents who oppose Sen. Goldwater...
...superpowers' spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain are pulsating with new polarities and priorities, groping in new directions at the same time they increasingly assert their pride in old nationhoods...
...Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington favored New York, to clip General Clinton; Rochambeau favored the Chesapeake, to complete the investment of Cornwallis at Yorktown...