Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced with the best Spanish profanity, then action. But, said Diego solemnly: "I insist on affirming that the incident holds no greater importance than those common ordinary things we see daily on the streets of Mexico arising out of difficulties of transit...
...murmur ran through the court which was horrified. ... In effect, the young man was saying, 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time,' and the strength of his desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...
...Committee's actions have had no illusions that they themselves are a significant part of that constituency. The war memorial will be an alumni gift to the University; whatever it is the generosity and spirit which have prompted the proffering will find ready appreciation. The dissenters simply insist that the expressed position of the student bodies at the College and the major graduate schools against the plaque-scholarship combination should properly carry great weight as Alumni make up their minds. It is on this basis that the proponents of a Memorial Center wage their campaign...
...name "the sweetest" eleven he has ever coached, Harlow is obliged to combine his teams of 1937 which beat an undefeated Yale 13-6, and the 1941 squad, "dear to my heart because of adversity." But despite some of the drudge character of football today, Harlow is quick to insist that the has never gotten more out of any bunch than his present team. "They have given everything they have," he says. "They have done everything I have tod them...
...some points, Stassen was bound to run into heavy criticism. Builders would insist that his housing program would cut into a materials shortage that is already drum-tight. His Government boycott plan was politically impractical. Those who thought he was too wide-eyed on Russia would still think so. Where I Stand set free-talking Harold Stassen up as a fair target for all comers, but that was the risk he had been accepting all along...