Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insist on maintaining Scandinavian shipping on the high seas...
...being a friend of both parties, able to open the eventual negotiations for peace, and restraining oppressive demands of either side. His conclusion that the U. S. had best join up with the Allies was based on two arguments: 1) if the Allies won, the U. S. could insist on a settlement generous to Germany; 2) if the Allies crumbled despite the U. S. joining up, then Germany would still have to reckon with the U. S. when talk came of peace terms, would therefore make a more generous settlement - and would be less free to turn...
Heartily condemning the present war in Europe, Representative Fish warned against all "iams" (except Americanism), which might entangle the nation in it. "If these old nations of the world insist on going stark, raving mad, arming to the teeth, going to war, and committing suicide, there is no reason why we should commit suicide...
...insist," he continued, "that if a student is, at the end of a college education, to seek employment in industry, his education should have been a help, not a hinderance, towards obtaining a chance to show his ability. The only way to insure this is to take basic courses in the sciences and in economics. More advanced training in these fields is advisable if possible...
Japanese statesmen arose in the Tokyo Diet last week to insist that nothing would change that course. If the U. S. implemented the treatyless situation with an embargo, Japan would not sit there and take it. She would abrogate the Nine-Power Treaty (already a dead letter); or stop being the U. S.'s third best customer; or throw U. S. citizens out of China; or fight...