Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy, as it leaked out from high places: Franklin Roosevelt, after he himself has been renominated, is expected to let the convention know that, while Henry Wallace is his personal choice for the Vice Presidency, he will not insist on him. The convention may then pick anyone it wants...
...true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted an item from his column of March 20: "Roosevelt intimates still insist the rumors about Elliott's next being Winston Churchill's daughter Mary are unfounded. That he never even met her. The fact is that Elliott's favorite person abroad is a WAC captain." In London, Colonel Roosevelt denied his engagement to Captain Briggs, whom...
There was much less derision of the haphazard robots, much more serious talk of their destructive potentiality if their flight could be closely controlled (see-SCIENCE). And those who continued to insist that the robots were exclusively aimed at civilian morale missed an important point...
Doctors who have tried the method find that the mothers' muscle tone remains good, so that delivery is spontaneous, babies are not dopey, labor is shortened. One objection: the injection is 8 to 12 cm. (3⅛ in. to 4¾ in.) deep and some skeptics insist that not every doctor can learn to make...
...have been waterborne, he once told Butcher that when his time came he was going to insist that his ceremonial coffin be built in the shape of a landing craft. Someone else can figure out the history part...