Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter the best New Dealers could do was to insist that Wendell Willkie had not made up his mind. No qualified person said he would have come out for Roosevelt...
Minnesota's ardent internationalist Joe Ball said: "We can't fiddle around. . . . Time is short. I urge all Americans . . . to insist upon clear, unequivocal answers . . . from Presidential and Congressional nominees. Safe, easy generalities . . . are not enough...
Clothing. "Zoot" suits - the green-and-brown camouflaged apparitions worn early in the war - have been discarded by the Army (marines still wear them). Nowadays soldiers wear a two-piece jungle uniform made of green herringbone twill. Because medics insist, it is thick enough to keep out mosquitoes and leeches; because chemical-warfare officers insist, it is gasproofed. Result: a hot, heavy uniform which makes men sweat like stokers, fails to dry out overnight, often fails to give its alleged protection because men simply cannot abide being smothered while fighting for their lives...
...splotched with yellow. His face was marred by a truculent frown. Waxey denied any financial interest in the two companies; explained carefully that he had no funds, that he had not worked regularly since 1933, that he lived on the kindness of friends. He had good reason to insist on his insolvency-Waxey owes the Government the fabulous sum of $3,000,000 on income-tax frauds, which he is paying off at the rate of $6 a week...
...Tobacco Road, he sneered, gently: "That's all about your kind of people, isn't it, Nunnally?" Replied Columbus, Georgia's native son: "Hell, where I come from we call that the country club set." Thrice married, twice divorced, Johnson once told friends: "I always insist on the custody of the mother...