Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Failure. Just what Author Adamic expected the Tory Prime Minister to do about such a Utopian plan as he proposed is hard to say. Whatever it was, he now concludes that Europe's present tension is due largely to the U.S.'s failure to insist on a "democratic revolution" over there, via the Two-Way Passage idea or something like it. His summary of what did happen: Churchill, symbolizing "Conquest" rather than "Liberation," was able to "seduce" F.D.R. into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R...
...there were Communists and fellow travelers at the policy levels, as many Congressmen insist, they were likely to stay there for a while. So far, State had shown no inclination to tackle anybody with influence who might put up a fight...
Blameless Labor. Among the more recent publications of the Smithsonian are reports on the catfish of Venezuela and the songs of the Chitimacha Indians of Louisiana. Every detail of nature, Smithsonian men insist, is worth attention for itself alone...
Bidault: "I am obliged to insist on respect for the chair...
...answer: Crosby failed to understand the "listener's ear." Crosby had another: NBC suffered from "broadcaster's ear." His conclusion: "If the broadcasters insist on censorship, a high form of discrimination is called for. Despite their vigilance, censors still are not keeping smut off the air. At the same time, unintelligent censorship is . . . driving radio writers into a sterile cynicism with no faith in themselves or their industry...