Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear gas and brickbats and lead. So controversial was his right to claim the Presidency that the real campaigning did not begin until after the election. For a time it looked as if General Almazán would surely assert his right in the old-fashioned Mexican way, by revolt...
...little flesh around the jowls, a figure not quite so lithe and supple as that which reamed the college campus" is the prediction made by the report of the present crop of females twenty years from now. Even so they will not be divorced, statistics assert. Only one percent of those studied have separated...
Duck maybe-eagle never." Fannie Hurst (pro-Roosevelt): "This is the end of an era, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and don't you forget it." John Llewellyn Lewis: "I assert again that the re-election of President Roosevelt will result in the nation's involvement in war." Frank R. Kent: ". . . Support...
...beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that the war would move south for the winter? Britons hoped so-for this would give Britain's Navy her first chance in the war for a real fight. In the Mediterranean, they were sure, Britain could and would assert her naval supremacy...
...show that late in July two-thirds of the American people favored conscription. I shall not say that the Gallup Poll is meaningless in its results on most questions, although I have yet to see or hear of any person interviewed by a Gallup Poller, but I do assert that the Gallup Poll on conscription on which you rely is meaningless because it is weighted. You fail to point out that the question asked was: "Do you think every able-bodied man 20 years old should be made to serve in the army, navy or air force for one year...