Word: reasserted
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...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
With today's competition, squash, swimming, and basketball follow football in post-war resumption of hostilities with Yale College champions. Lowell and Adams are out to reassert Crimson House supremacy, sorely tested in the seven grid contests, in which only one local entry emerged triumphant. STRAUS CUP STANDINGS House Total Points Leverett 577 1/2 Lowell 577 1/2 Eliot 487 1/2 Dunster 485 Kirkland 480 Winthrop 465 Adams 412 1/2 Dudley...
...more than 500 legislators troop into the old chambers this week, these will become minor problems and gradually recede. For Republican leaders major problems would reassert themselves. Out of power, the Republicans had been able to apply Joe Martin's pragmatic philosophy-"I've found out that in the long run what's good for one section is pretty much good for the country"-and not worry too much about the consequences. Republican leaders would now have to look sharper and farther. Generally, they were sober men and aware of their new responsibilities; they were ready...
...most important event on the world stage last week was something that did not happen. Despite its intense interest and ambitions in the Middle East (see below), Russia failed to react when the Persian Government sent troops into Azerbaijan Province to supervise elections and to reassert Teheran's authority. The outcome was U.N.'s first practical victory in its fight to keep the peace...
...several occasions during the hearings, John Lewis had had to reassert the majesty of his person. On Wednesday, when a cameraman tried to take his picture he swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front...