Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the union soon had a rival in reforming zeal: a lively new Board of Education, born of construction scandals that had sent the old board packing. But in trying to assert its power, the new board confronted a union mentality that distrusted "management" and seemed more obsessed with pay than pedagogy. Union demands soon demonstrated the fallacy of the idea that the board is management, for the board has no power of the purse and does not control its assets. It must appeal for money to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state...
...baron, and his ancestors for centuries before him were zamindars. In his youth he lived carelessly on inherited wealth, imagining that it would last forever. But the rising middle class was not careless, and soon some of the zamindar's neighbors were richer than he. Partly to assert his superiority, partly to gratify his passion for music, he took to regaling his acquaintances at lavish musical evenings. When his dutiful wife warned him that it was costing too much to pay the piper, he waved her away. "If I cut corners I shall lose face...
Most of the countries are merely using the test ban treaty for international politics. Examples: Israel, which is in fact working on an atomic bomb, is trying to show that it is just as peace-loving as Egypt's Nasser, and East Germany is trying to assert its status as a sovereign nation, though unrecognized as such by the West...
...rather so assert your sovereign will...
Vicious Creeds. James does not bother to choose among the various creeds he catalogues because he considers them all unprovable. "Instinct leads," he writes. "Intelligence does but follow." The act of conversion is, in fact, a complete surrender of human reason: "The will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present with no discordant future to be anxious...