Word: reasserted
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...delegates fervently echoed Thomas E. Dewey's conclusion: "Religion must reassert its leadership as a living force in the moral values of the nation. Our form of government was devised on principles flowing from deep religious conviction. . . . Every essential of any free society springs from the concepts of morality, family life and duties and faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Each of these is denied by the purely materialistic philosophies of totalitarianism...
...dozen signs pointed last week to the next step in U.S. foreign policy which the Administration was ready to take: to reassert the right of the U.S. to freedom of the seas...
...Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...
Last week, with totalitarianism in the ascendency throughout Europe and democracy fighting for its life, first stirrings of a counter-revolutionary movement to reassert democratic principles became apparent. Once a revolutionary idea of the first order, democracy, reasoned a small group of thoughtful Britons like Basil Kingsley Martin and Cyril Connolly, was a latent force which, if it could be revived in Germany, Italy, Poland and France, would offer the easiest way of crushing Naziism...
...elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view in Manhattan last week served to reassert their stature...