Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug addict, Farber proposes, may be the prototype for all willful Americans hooked on the "demonic notion" that by chemistry or stubbornness, one can have what one wants, right now. As for suicide, Farber refers the reader to Dostoyevsky. "I will assert my will," says Kirillov in The Possessed-just be fore he commits suicide...
Virtually the only way Brezhnev could assert Moscow's erstwhile primacy in the Communist movement was to speak for 65 minutes-more than twice the time allotted other delegates. Evidently aware of his failure to achieve his original aims, Brezhnev deftly shifted emphasis to a display of Soviet reasonableness. He assured his listeners that the U.S.S.R. had no wish to reinstitute a Communist "organizational center" or Cominform-which would be impossible in any case. This was apparently a conciliatory gesture to Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 84, who participated in an international Communist conference for the first time since...
...conflicts are, of course, more complicated than religious fanaticism; they have a great deal to do with economic discrimination, battles for political power, questions of deeply laminated social difference. Nor do the wars involve religious doctrine-except in oblique, complex ways. A Belfast pub is not blown up to assert the Real Presence or the Virgin Birth. Many of the terrorists are atheists anyway. In such places as Ireland and Lebanon, religious leaders on all sides have prayed and pleaded for an end to the fighting. The I.R.A. is filled with the excommunicated, whose religious observances are limited to theatrical...
...rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name & by authority of the good people of these [states, reject & renounce all allegiance & subjection to the kings of Great Britain . . . & finally we do assert & declare these colonies to be free &) independent states,] colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free &? independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown...
...short term, barring miscalculation, continued U.S. brokerage is likely to prevent such a war. Along with their internal problems that counsel against renewed fighting, Arabs and Israelis alike know the U.S. is too hamstrung by its presidential election this year to assert the leadership necessary to produce new momentum in lieu of war. But 1977 will be the year of the crunch. Israel is fearful-and the Arabs hopeful-of heavy postelection pressure on Jerusalem to withdraw from occupied territories. Beset by unrest on the West Bank, a faltering economy and a bitterly divided leadership, Israel could find such pressure...