Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in the Deep South, blacks are uniting on the local level to assert their economic strength against the white-dominated status quo. In central Mississippi, for example, some 400 blacks have joined the Simpson County Civic League to operate a low-rent housing project, purchase fertilizer in mass amounts to reduce operating costs for about 100 black farmers, and open a cooperative grocery store to lower prices...
...speakers cited the psychological pressures women feel in the predominately male Harvard atmosphere. Ellen Ojaj, teaching fellow in Government, spoke of "the conflict between wanting to be professional and assert your own ideas and the cultural pull we all feel not to want to hurt...
Page was determined to win his match with Terrell and he tried several stalling ?ac?ies before the match to assert his dominance on the court. Terrell, on the other hand, remained calm and rushed to an early lead on perfectly placed deep smashes and three-wall nicks...
...Senate wishes to assert itself, it can begin, as Senator Mathias has suggested, by repealing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and encouraging the President to seek a political solution to the war. At present the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes an almost boundless extension of the war into the North. The bombing has temporarily ceased, but "as long as the resolution remains on the books, it may be interpreted as authorizing further attacks...
...forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would have seemed treasonable. Congress feared to speak openly with the President because to do so would jeopardize "major national interests" or "let the troops down." Today Senators can even imply, if not boldly assert, that the President has usurped the Constitution...