Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although some Cambridge citizens assert that the rats--or whatever they are--come from the Charles, some have suggested that they come from Boston, where demolition of buildings is taking place. "At any rate," Vellucci said, "we should find out, and curb what threatens to a bigger problem...
...Quang, a frail, hot-eyed monk who heads the Institute of Buddhist Clergy. Quang has managed to confuse everyone about his political loyalties, but he masterminded last summer's Buddhist strategy against Diem and is now thought to be a leader of the militant monks exhorting Buddhists to "assert" themselves. What worries the U.S. is the possibility that they will assert themselves for neutralism-and the question of why they have failed to assert themselves against Communism...
Tension mounted all Saturday night as guitar-thrumming youths became "blocked," their term for getting high on goofballs. Because Mods sport elaborate hairdos and often tart themselves up with eye shadow and transparent lipstick, they are sneered at by the Rockers. Margate was the Mods' big chance to assert their virility. At dawn on Sunday, armed with ripped-off legs from beach chairs, stone-hurling Mods charged their rivals, injuring two policemen who tried to intervene. As police reinforcements poured in, the battle surged to and fro along the beach, then spread into Margate's streets. Two youths...
...Communist attacks were a challenge to Premier Maj. Gen. Nguyen Thanh, who has called that area one of the most critical in South Viet Nam. He has been trying to assert Vietnamese control there, where guerrilla attacks have been almost constant in recent months...
...jeopardize jobs by going to jail, and hesitated to allow the children to miss school to demonstrate. Hosea reached them by appealing to their children. Do the old folks want their children to experience the same deprivations? The old folks had lived their lives--now let the youngsters assert themselves in the world that would soon be theirs. To insure a future of freedom, all Negroes must rise to the cause. With these arguments and his colloquial humor, Hosea elicited adult support and allayed parental anxiety. And at a church rally Hosea drew hearty applause by pointing out that...