Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...like to increase trade-and not simply because the prospect of a slice of the former $545 million-a-year U.S.-Cuba trade looked irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just as we expect that they respect...
...have a great Irish one. The Phoenix Theater's production lacks more than Irishness; it is not dramatic or revealing or resonant enough. The play does stir sleepily all evening, though it takes scenes of brawling to bring it really to life, or the great final curtain to assert its piercing ironic force...
...impossible. It is true that the choice of other theatres is small; the Pi Eta theatre is no longer available and there are difficulties in using Agassiz. But if undergraduate groups are to escape the collective Faculty thumb and maintain more than an appearance of independent control they must assert their ability to produce elsewhere...
...Getting bigger does not have the top priority," she said, denying that the college has an obligation to expand its enrollment. "We must try to assert our leadership by doing the best job we can," instead of increasing the size of the college without sufficient facilities, the President maintained...
Only the Eisenhower Administration, it seems not too frivolous to assert, could ever have gathered together a group of extremely distinguished men and given them the name "The President's Committee on National Goals." And, perhaps, only this administration could have conceived and executed the entire project with an air of such solemn and measured gravity...