Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just to condemn Shepard's attackers, along with any other brutes who would so grossly violate the basic respect due all people (whatever their sexual orientation), it is disingenuous to decry Americans in general as "bigots" or "homophobes," suggesting a senseless hatred of homosexuals. To do so is to assert that there are no reasonable grounds for opposing homosexuality worthy of discussion...
Late in the first period, however, the Crimson started to assert itself with tough midfield work and good combination play and it realigned the attack to put pressure on the vulnerable right side of the Stanford defense...
Only down 3-2, Harvard had a great opportunity to assert control of the game. However, the Crimson made several mental mistakes and gave up an easy goal to the Bears...
...enough to claim more than half the credit for this astonishing outburst of melody. No sooner had Scott Joplin introduced ragtime in the late 19th century than commercial writers were figuring ways to work its kicky, irresistible beat into their songs. By 1911 young Irving Berlin could confidently assert that Everybody's Doing It (Doing It, Doing It) Now--and not just Americans either. Dukes and lords and Russian Czars were doing it too, as Berlin noted elsewhere. And a few years later, ragtime became part of the sound track for World War I and the jazz age that followed...
...spoke out against the current tendency to divide American politics along ethnic lines. "I have spoken of political identity. Too often one has to assert oneself in the political arena as a woman, as a Jew, as a color...