Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is not a comfortable course to follow at the precise moment when the elected representatives of the far right seem consciously to be seeking a martyr. Weary of delicacy and complexity in foreign affairs, they are, like Senator Goldwater, willing to assert that the cold war can be brought to a quick and satisfactory conclusion if only it is fought by men whose appearance is tougher and whose speech is harsher than Kennedy's, or Stevenson's, or Arthur Dean's. The reaction to General MacArthur's recall has shown how powerful a weapon against liberal treatment of diplomatic...
Finally, the Corporation, while affirming the basic Christian character of the Church, opened it for all "private" services. The Corporation said that the University "does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed." Pusey said, "If I were asked whether Harvard were a secular university, I would answer, 'Yes.' But it has within it a tradition of worship; one could wish that this were broad enough to include everyone in the community...
...Roman Church, writes Niebuhr, balances concern for the individual with concern for the health of the community, which is to be achieved by what the encyclical calls "objective justice and its driving force, love." Says he: "To assert that justice is the norm and 'love the driving force' is certainly a theory of the relation of...love to the social order preferable to some Protestant and secular theories...
...would be more pleased than the Berliners themselves were their city to occupy less space in current headlines. However, it is not the fate solely of the 2.5 million inhabitants of a city that is at stake in Berlin, but rather the question of whether freedom can assert itself throughout the world...
Broken Yo-Yo. Each of the strikes was a local affair called by a local union leader anxious to assert his authority. Like children out to embarrass their parents in public, local leaders went much further than Reuther expected, as they wrangled with G.M. plant negotiators over 11,000 issues ranging from the utterly frivolous (time off for deer hunting) to the undeniably serious (job transfer rights...