Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible. It is true that the choice of other theatres is small; the Pi Eta theatre is no longer available and there are difficulties in using Agassiz. But if undergraduate groups are to escape the collective Faculty thumb and maintain more than an appearance of independent control they must assert their ability to produce elsewhere...
...Getting bigger does not have the top priority," she said, denying that the college has an obligation to expand its enrollment. "We must try to assert our leadership by doing the best job we can," instead of increasing the size of the college without sufficient facilities, the President maintained...
Only the Eisenhower Administration, it seems not too frivolous to assert, could ever have gathered together a group of extremely distinguished men and given them the name "The President's Committee on National Goals." And, perhaps, only this administration could have conceived and executed the entire project with an air of such solemn and measured gravity...
...claimed that since in 1957 the legislature had changed the law under which Wyman was acting, Uphaus's conviction now had no force. But because the State Supreme Court had ruled that the change was only in wording, the Federal court had to have grounds of constitutional conflict to assert jurisdiction. It had denied itself such grounds when it declared in 1959 that governmental interest out-weighed the right of associational privacy in this kind of investigation...
...said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism was to assert that clergymen like that 'just want to kill sentiment,' an interesting possibility...