Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaded southern France, which the Germans at the time were still working to make impregnable, or into the upper Adriatic Sea, where contact could have been made with Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, critics of the strategy followed insist, a radically different situation would exist...
Assuming that the Allies are unwilling to devote the resources necessary for a major landing elsewhere in the Mediterranean-and assuming that they insist on attacking with limited forces in Italy-they are foolish to waste lives battering against the well-defended mountains near Cassino if they can use their efforts on the less-difficult although now also well-defended terrain behind Cassino...
Despite a few fumbling attempts to forbid the banns, the writers of three of these books insist that the U.S. should prepare for a golden honeymoon with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...
...Because of all this, the apparent determination of the Soviet Government to insist on a unilateral settlement of the Polish problem, without mediation or consent either of Russia's allies or the Polish Government, has come as a shock to American opinion...
When houses are built on Queen's Acres, Father Urbain plans a school for the children. He will welcome Protestant farmers at Queen's Acres, will not insist that their children attend his school. "But," he adds, "we won't mind making converts...