Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupation; the U.S. and Britain interpret the Potsdam clause to mean property owned by Germany before the Anschluss. 3) Russia wants to seize as war criminals most anti-Communist refugees from Soviet satellites who are now among the 400,000 D.P.s in Austrian camps; the U.S. and Britain insist that the Russians produce specific evidence before they make arrests...
...immediate result was clear. With the marines' withdrawal, the U.S. would be in a better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis...
...issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the U. S. at the same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs subcommittee, in which statement not once did these Congressmen so much...
...airplane ride with Dana Andrews, an AAF captain returning to a Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter...