Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal problems are still with us, according to Butler, and likewise the Negro inferiority complex, a legacy of the American society's repression of Negroes. He suggested that Negroes at all levels should have "automatic" membership" in one mass group with the hierarchical leadership needed to assert stronger racial identity...
...feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit...
...once the property of Arthur Mizener, who helped bring his writings to a new prominence (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951). But Fitzgerald is now a contested figure, suspended between Mizener and Andrew Turnbull, author of the recent biographical bestseller (TIME, March 30). Several critics are even now trying to assert squatters' rights in the late William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, but what will become of their rivalry nobody is likely to know for years. Hemingway had no one dominant fan in life. After his death, a stampede of scholars for the right to use his private papers might have...
...huge majority of cases the machine would place students in exactly the same House as the Masters and the present system. And he adds encouragingly that the automatic system could doubtless inform the Masters of any extraordinary or borderline cases, and so allow ordinary human judgment to assert itself again...
...attempt has been made, however, to re-create in Cuba the conditions that enabled Tito to assert his independence. It is worth recalling that American businessmen and diplomats were sufficiently active in Belgrade for Pravda to cite the presence of "Washington agents" as steady proof of Tito's unreliability. That silly slogan about Communism not being negotiable in this hemisphere was, fortunately, not applied to the northern half of the globe...