Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committee members had little quarrel with this request. But they were disturbed by the rigidity of George Marshall's thinking. In executive session with the committee, the Secretary of State continued to insist that the main battle against Communism would have to be fought in Western Europe. Because the U.S. could not now, any more than in World War II, fight with equal vigor everywhere, it must consider the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East as theaters of containment only. Marshall stubbornly refused to think of China in any other terms...
...pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
...feels too old to run the university: "Were I to insist that I am as good as ever (if ever I was good)," he wrote last week, "such insistence would be in itself clear evidence of senility...
...Poland's Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (secret police) waste money planting agents in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw? Said Griffis: "There's nothing I tell my government I wouldn't tell you. . . . Why bother paying agents to read telegrams I'll gladly show you? But if you insist on spending money that way, why not have the U.B. hire me? I have more access to what information there...
...should any modified bill reach his desk for approval or veto, the governor would be caught in the middle, between those members of the Republican party, such as Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes, who want to restrict Communists, and more liberal GOPsters who insist on maintaining complete academic freedom in Bay State educational institutions...