Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some folks say his worst accident was in 1943 when a taxi knocked him down and broke his leg. Others insist that it was the day in 1962 when he was made manager of the New York Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw...
...zooms in for close-ups with all the subtlety of a TV camera chasing a foul ball into the bleachers; nothing climatic, or scary, or terribly funny ever happens. Me, I thought the method, endlessly exciting--if only as a harbinger of low-budget honesty to come. (The distributors insist on classing their films with David and Lisa. It's much, much better...
...quick survey of liquor establishments in the area yesterday netted the following information: Cronin's will insist on the Certificates from all questionable customers in "a day or two." The Hamilton Liquor Store and the Oxford Grille plan to require them "in a couple of weeks" and the Wursthaus and the Harvard Provision Co. on June...
Proponents claim that the only way to re-establish the confidence of minority groups in the police is through the establishment of independent boards that would study civilian complaints against the police and recommend remedies and punishments to police commissioners. They insist that such boards would not interfere with normal police work, but would only deter bullies in uniform from using undue muscle. The end result, they say, would be an improved climate of community trust...
...conservative Johnsonians, and most historians since, have refused to concede that the Radicals were seriously concerned about the welfare of the Negro, and insist instead that the Radicals were seeking to enfranchise the Negro solely to maintain the Republicans in power...