Word: reasserts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France, which grudgingly left Syria and Lebanon in 1946, has misgivings about British ascendancy in the Middle East, deplores METO, and would like to reassert its old influence in its lost territories.* Therefore, France works to help the other half of the Arab world: three weeks ago it resumed arms shipments to Egypt. Egypt reciprocated by ceasing its own fiery broadcasts to the Moslems of French North Africa (while persisting in stirring up hatred against the British by broadcasts beamed at the Sudan, Kenya and Uganda...
President Eisenhower journeyed to Philadelphia last week on a mission: to reassert his belief that the Big Four conference at Geneva was merely a first step toward peace, offering little more than a friendlier international climate in which diplomats can begin work on the actual problems of the cold war. It was the President's intent to warn the U.S. and its allies against premature relaxation of the posture of strength that made the "Spirit of Geneva" possible in the first place...
Pusey wrote that it should be no surprise that universities are actively resented now and then since, "the little boy who hates school unfortunately continues to lurk in too many adults and needs very little encouragement to reassert himself...
...days in prison for perjury, Alger Hiss was paroled (until next September). Outside the prison a throng of more than 70 newsmen surged around him as he intoned his careful words: "I am very glad to use this chance-the first I have had in nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts...
...sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him into a sensational show-business success. He has sold more records (400,000 albums) than Eddie Fisher, has the most widely admired dimples since Shirley Temple...