Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you for an objective and most revealing study of the American Medical Association [July 7]. For this closed-shop union to assert that payment of medical bills from a social security check is "socialized medicine" is as nonsensical as to state that payment of the supermarket from a social security check is "socialized groceries...
...play's final assert is its set by Ian Strasfogel: great Bauhaus slats frame a room that, one suddenly realizes, is a great and unescapable cage. I would like to call it oppressive--meaning that as high praise...
...Jack Paar said that it was the honorable thing for the U.S. to do. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said that it was blackmail. Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt saw it as an opportunity for U.S. humanitarianism to assert itself. Columnist Robert Ruark denounced it as an obscene, criminal proposition. Wherever the average American turned last week-to his television set, his newspaper, his favorite bartender or to his wife-he could get an argument. The subject of controversy: Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion...
Partly as the result of the new market--and perhaps partly to assert the Law School's spiritual independence from Wall Street, the Faculty has adopted a policy of not announcing class standings for other than the first 100 students in a class. Although they will still know the applicants' grades, the big-city firms will no longer be able to rely exclusively on these magic numbers which have become rather meaningless because of the great degree of bunching in the middle of the class...
Seeger's critics among intellectuals and the academic community maintain that his political views are naive and ultra-idealistic. Conceiving of themselves as realists, they assert that folkey good naturedness is no match for tough-minded political analysis...