Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Hitler's designs, form follows function as surely as in any Corbusier or Gropius. The function had nothing to do with human needs. It was simply to intimidate the people, and to assert the state-visual symbols as purposeful as Goebbels' radio broadcasts. No Berliner could look anywhere in his city, Hitler hoped, without seeing that overpowering dome, those relentless colonnades...
Sihanouk sharply criticized the U.S. for supporting Lon Nol's regime. "The United States has valid reasons certainly for defending itself against the propagation of Communism in Asia and most particularly in Southeast Asia," declared Sihanouk. "But it would be pure hypocrisy to assert that the United States is defending the highest interests of the Indochinese people in preventing at all costs regimes like those of Lon Nol and of Nguyen Cao Ky from falling to Communism, using for that purpose bombs and napalm and an apocalyptic destruction of the countries and peoples concerned...
...under direct orders to desegregate. No one is certain just how they will react as Dixie's school bells signal the start of the new academic year, which in some cases will be next week. But last week President Richard Nixon dramatically flew into the South to assert the prestige and weight of his office in behalf of cooperative acceptance of the law of the land. "The highest court has spoken," he told his Southern audience, and it is "the responsibility of the President to uphold...
Some executives assert that the public is not interested in paying for products that reduce pollution. General Motors, for example, has just spent $50,000 to promote and test-market in Phoenix a $20 exhaust-emission control kit for pre-1968 models. Out of 334,000 owners of such cars in the area, only 528 bought the kit. (Chrysler, on the other hand, reports brisk sales of a similar kit for its cars...
...specialty is the hijacking of airplanes. "Without our consent, the other Arabs can do nothing, and we will never agree to a peaceful settlement. If the Arab countries now think they can gang up and make peace over our heads, they are mistaken. All we have to do is assert our power in one country and the rest will lose their resolve and start backsliding...