Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...
Composed mostly of graduate students in Economics, last night's Littauer gathering first heard Sweezy, author of "The Theory of Capitalist Development," assert that capitalism has shown increasing stability and violent fluctuations...
Time of death presents another dilemma, Brickley continued. The dead man's waterproof wristwatch read 7:15 o'clock, but "I'm hanged if I can say whether that means A.M. or P.M.," the Examiner observed. Harmon's four associates from Leverett were also unable to assert whether he wound his watch in the morning or evening...
Help from ICC? Just how he was going to assert .his claimed control of the New York Central he did not know-at the moment. But Young intended to get his men on the Central's board somehow...
These bills do not nationalize urban or rural land outright. But they finally and firmly assert prior Government interest in all land and its uses, and subordinate all private interest to the Government. Silkin's bill revolutionizes the whole basis of tenure and use of British land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present...