Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans insist that 41-year-old Danilova is "a dancer's dancer," the best classical dancer today. Most balletomanes allow her ballet's most beautiful legs (a critic once called them "flexible and . . . fast [as a] hummingbird's wings...
...agree, and insist, that radio must have just as much freedom of speech as . . . newspapers. But radio and printed advertising are two different things. The eye of the reader can reject an advertisement with a split-second glance. . . . The listener has no such easy choice...
...Dollars. Actually, the U.S. had given nothing away; nothing had actually been done at all. The President had not even asked Congress to forgive the debts. He had merely said that it would be unwise for the U.S. to insist on cash repayment of Lend-Lease obligations. And he had bolstered that point with a reference to the "disastrous political and economic consequences" of the U.S. policy on World War I debts. (As of Jan. 1, about $14.6 billions of World War I debts remained unpaid...
Quebeckers, who as members of the French Canadian minority have a nodding acquaintance with intolerance, applauded Dr. Cannon. Many phoned the Cannons, or stopped them on the streets, to insist that what had happened did not reflect local feeling. A waiter in the hotel whispered to them: "I'm damned glad you won!" Said V Action Catholique: "The case . . . should be brought before the highest courts in the country...
Because this particular victim of Holly wood's wonderful ways happens to be 1) intelligent, 2) candid, 3) now free to talk - her long-term contract with Warner has just expired ("thank God") - Miss Fitzgerald has finally explained all. Any Hollywoodenhead would insist that it was entirely her own fault, and, in a measure, she would cheerfully agree...