Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure, which is reported to have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests insist that Argentine steers have hoof-and-mouth disease, for one small example, the Republic will be dependent on Europe for its existence...
...time Santa Claus and blowing an ironical horn on New Year's Eve, President Conant quietly made another of his speeches. He stated that, "The day the Nazi regime collapses . . . the United States must be ready to assume political and economic leadership of the world. . . We shall have to insist that the final international order will be based on freedom." This was the urgent warning which he couched in phrases of provocative advice...
Said the liberal, keen New-Statesman and Nation: "At this point we face something even more unpleasant than incompetence. No one will complain that Penang was deliberately evacuated while there was time to withdraw its white inhabitants. But reports insist that its docks and its electric power station were left intact for the enemy's use [see p. 21] and subsequent denials only cover half the charges...
...stand for vigilant maintenance of civil liberties and abolition of racial and religious discrimination in civil life and defense effort. We insist that labor's legitimate rights to organize freely, to bargain collectively, and to strike, be protected. And we strongly favor voluntary and impartial mediation in defense labor disputes. We favor maintenance and increase of educational budgets and social services like Federal Housing...
...Housemasters insist that they must proceed slowly in their efforts to cut costs and must ponder each move carefully before they make it. Such a desire is justifiable taking into consideration the radical extent of the changes they are being forced to make. But let them remember that the higher costs which they are fighting will wait...