Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teammates loyally assert that Ted is also the best leftfielder in the business -a statement that arouses derision even in many sections of Boston. Ted has injudiciously said many times, "They don't pay off on fielding." Often enough, he does manage in the heat of the season to look like a tired and slightly bored businessman, slouched back on one heel, his shoulders drooping, when he is on station in left field. Nonetheless, his long legs cover a lot of territory, his long arms take in a lot of sky, and he works slickly with crackerjack Center-Fielder...
Referring to your article, "Dishonest Abe," in which you assert that Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time . . ." etc. [TIME...
...should be remembered, nevertheless, that . . . not until 1905 - long after the remark had won a secure place in American folklore - did several men who had heard Lincoln speak at Clinton come forward to assert that he had used these words . . . Naturally, implicit confidence cannot be placed in their statements. Moreover, several who were present at the Clinton meeting had no recollection of Lincoln's use of the epigram...
Here then is an opportunity for the Annex. We know of no stronger argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future. --reprinted from the HERALD-CRIMSON February...
...since the Big Five countries are designated permanent members of the UNAEC, the West will probably always have a majority on the Commission. Thus, under the proposed plan, Russian industrial development of atomic energy, if only for peaceful purposes, would be controlled by nations favoring the U.S., Soviet delegates assert. As for the "stages" aspect, the USSR claims that it was placed there to preserve the U.S. monopoly of bombs--which existed in 1946--until the U.S. could be certain of its ability to control atomic production throughout the world...