Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters blame the Princetonian for inciting the struggle which they insist should have been enforced in September, not late October. One Freshman points out the food wastage and another decries the "splitting into factions" of the undergraduate spirit "needed sorely for the football games coming this and the following weekends...
...just that it will win the allegiance not of the comfortable but of the insecure and the impoverished. It is particularly important that America, as the most powerful and wealthiest of the nations in the western world, should acquire a higher degree of humility. Without it we will insist upon political creeds and political reforms which Europe regards not as the creed of democracy but as the characteristic prejudice of a very wealthy nation. . . . Without humility and the imagination to think beyond the characteristic prejudices of American life we cannot win the ideological battle against Communism...
...People insist on calling that one Bill Bingham," said Haskian yesterday, "when anybody can see that it's Emil Drvaric." The Somerville artist has endowned the Milwaukee guard with a suspiciously light sprinkling of tawny hair and a somewhat hunted expression...
...first time he had mentioned "police state," Clark Clifford, his chief speechwriter, who was sitting behind him, had visibly stiffened. One big part of Democratic campaign strategy was sure to be an attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
...left among the dead for two days, dying of thirst, when at last a Hindu battalion of the Indian Army visited our village and rescued me. I insist revenge be taken on these traitors and brutes. We ought to declare war on Pakistan...