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Word: reassertions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambition to reassert the dynasty, Siegmund Warburg faces a frustration. His only son left the firm to start his own accounting business, and the two men are not close. The War burg future seems to depend on the smaller branch in Germany, where Eric Warburg is carefully bringing along his 18-year-old son, also an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The Warburgs | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Reading the Dragon's Mind | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...both a political citizen and a moral man," he said. "But Spain has found the worse solution--to suppress both. To renounce politics is to accept the Establishment and become a passive citizen. To renounce ethics is to lose respect for one's own human dignity. Somehow we must reassert these things together...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Spain's Liberalism `Make Believe' Aranguren Says; Denounces Franco | 2/15/1966 | See Source »

Western observers see the new Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Oh What a Lovely War? | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Creole French. Its soil is more fertile, and its population density only half that of its smaller neighbor. What it shares is a common history of chaos. As in Haiti, bloody rebellions drove out the European governors, first the French in 1809, then the Spanish who had tried to reassert their dominion. No sooner had the Dominican Republic declared its independence in 1821 than it was invaded by neighboring Haiti, which occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: HISPANIOLA: A History of Hate | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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