Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune had been trying to publish an edition in Australia for U.S. troops. Last week Australia flatly refused permission-no reason given. Fumed the Colonel: "It shows that Australia is under a dictatorship as extreme as the dictatorships of Russia and Germany. The U.S. should insist the Australian people be freed, since the U.S. saved them from Japan...
Everything is not entirely rosy in the nation's charity stores. Denver's 70-year-old Agnes Lewis, friend of a generation of Larimer Street down-&-outers, has been almost driven out of business by full employment. Most of her customers have gone uppity, and now insist upon Goodwill's reconditioned articles. Atlanta's Salvation Army, bereft of its peacetime unemployables, must sell most of its articles without repair. San Francisco's salvagers lack trucks enough to pick up the gifts. But difficulties or not, the profits of most U.S. thrift stores were...
...against a problem shared by no other nation of comparable size and importance. ... I do not think we should seek to keep the ideas of any other country out of this country. But I do think at the same time that we have a right-to insist that our own ideas be placed before our own people. ... I think those of us who are interested in the assurance of adequate channels of domestic information have ... a right to object to the dumping of any outside publications in Canada on a basis which gives them any special advantages over...
...take, and warned him: "I'm not interested in being a conquering hero around here, but everybody is beginning to think you're a crook." Finally Hirst set a trap. He got the buxom Negro madam of the "Black and Tan Club" to insist on paying off to the mayor and police chief in person. Hirst's men watched through a peephole, recorded the transaction on a dictograph. Last week Attorney Hirst got his convictions...
...sample of this duplication, Congressmen needed look no farther than Washington, where Army's big Boiling Field and Navy's big Anacostia Air Station operate side by side with duplicate control towers, ground crews, weather forecasting. Some critics insist that such duplication of supply and facilities, which is worldwide, has cost the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars, plus the services of several hundred thousand...