Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics and a member of the Committee, said yesterday that the meeting "will not only reassert our right to criticize the conduct of the Vietnamese war but also use this right to make substantive criticisms of the war itself...
...more than 30 years provided few moments of leadership and even fewer leaders. For now, however, the GOP's task seems herculean. In the 1950's the party made an inept attempt at becoming a majority party. In the 1960's it must do something far more basic: reassert itself as an effective minority party...
Aware that all this drifting anarchy could spell the end of the war effort through the rise of a "neutralist" regime, Taylor flew to Dalat to urge Khanh to reassert his already severely damaged authority. Khanh hemmed and hawed, protested to reporters that he was not mentally ill, as had been suggested, but admitted that he did suffer one malady: "I have hemorrhoids." Nevertheless, he finally agreed to return to the capital...
...Pearson to cut the parliamentary Gordian knot and reassert his flagging leadership would be to call an election, in hopes of producing a clear Liberal majority. But the polls are discouraging; the Liberals would probably win, yet only enough to form another fragile minority government. "Canadians do not want another election," said Pearson. "I do not want an election. The Cabinet and caucus do not want an election. Though it is getting harder and harder, we remain determined to carry on as if we had a clear majority...
...went on, the invasion was more directly motivated by India's effort to reassert her claims in Ladakh. By means of an "impressive military demonstration," the Chinese hoped to prove to the Indians how futile any attempts would...