Word: reassert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations, at the cessation of hostilities if not earlier, should reassert and recognize the boundaries of the European states as of 1933, so far as possible (i.e. except for limitations mentioned below.) This reassertion of old boundaries would have the advantage that it would emphasize as an international principal that aggressive conquests by force and in defiance of treaty obligations, such as those made by the Axis Powers, will not be recognized...
...seventy-fifth anniversary the Advocate has tried to reassert its claim to national prominence. Featuring, almost exclusively, the work of prominent literary figures, its table of contents alone would entitle it to the attention of contemporary critics. If, inevitably, much of such a collection represents "the worst material of the best people," enough exceptions are included to justify occasional more judicious forays on the national literary scene...
...delegates fervently echoed Thomas E. Dewey's conclusion: "Religion must reassert its leadership as a living force in the moral values of the nation. Our form of government was devised on principles flowing from deep religious conviction. . . . Every essential of any free society springs from the concepts of morality, family life and duties and faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Each of these is denied by the purely materialistic philosophies of totalitarianism...
...dozen signs pointed last week to the next step in U.S. foreign policy which the Administration was ready to take: to reassert the right of the U.S. to freedom of the seas...
...Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...