Word: reasserted
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...Linked with these as the Empire's entertainment, dancing got a thoroughly bad name, incurred the enmity of the Christian Church. Yet in the early Catholic Mass Author Kirstein discerns seeds of the present dance-drama and through the early mystery plays the theatre was to begin to reassert itself...
This state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...
...undertaking the task of trying to help define and change the relation between the church and the political-economic setup that now prevails. The church must reassert her independence, or wither and die. . . . I hope to get a hearing from the 40,000 students that throng Boston, from victims of unemployment and from radicals...
...State which had not voted for it, but some of the emotional impetus given the Democratic Party in the bloodless revolution of 1932 certainly appeared to have spent itself in Pennsylvania. "It is time," observed the New York Times, "for the two-party system to reassert itself . . . and nobody can know better than Mr. Roosevelt that the stand-together-brothers tableau is about over...
...citizens of Tokyo were dying of influenza at the rate of 90 per day. General Araki caught it. As the epidemic was brought under control he was said to have pneumonia. With Parliament about to reassemble this week Japan's politicians looked for a chance to reassert themselves as the War Minister lay abed. Japan's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, recently her Ambassador to Moscow, hoped for a chance to launch with caution a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Russia...