Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organize an objective debate, and which are filled with invective and insults. And then, as the United Nations becomes a, scene of disturbance, confusion and division, it acquires the ambition to intervene in all kinds of matters. This is especially true of its officers. It is anxious to assert itself -even by force of arms-as it did in the Congo. The result is that it carries to the local scene its global incoherence, the personal conceptions of its various agents and the individual partiality of each of the states, which send their contingents with their own orders-send them...
...arguments endorsing the present ban point out the quality of Ivy teams such as last fall's undefeated Yale eleven and assert that Ivy football is not inferior; call the league's present system a healthy and necessary balance between academics; and note to the players the idea of spring football is not as simple as -- "The crews practice all fall, don't they...
...other side. Joining General Robert E. Lee's forces at the Rapidan in 1862, he thereafter produced the principal visual record of the Confederate campaigns, together with some strongly worded expressions on behalf of the Southern cause: "Surrounded as I am by the Southern people, I emphatically assert that the South can never be subjugated...
Education of any sort forces the prisoner to use his mind and to assert himself, and thus is one way of getting the men to stand outside the walls...
Some psychologists maintain that the hypnotist cannot induce anyone to do anything which he considers immoral. Others assert that a hypnotized subject will exhibit any behavior, provided the proper techniques are employed...