Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile stretch in western Russia, where they replaced 39 antique locks with seven modern ones twice the size of those in the huge Volga-Don Canal, which hooks the whole system into the Black Sea. The system so far will take only shallow-draft ships, and the Russians insist that anyone who wants to ship over it do so in Russian or satellite ships. With powerful icebreakers they hope to keep traffic open even in winter...
Goldwater's convention victory has often been described as a wild deviation from Republican norms. "Liberal" Republican orators especially insist that Goldwater's nomination was utterly atypical of their party...
Passive Role. Colleges have conflicting ideas on what to do with the artist once they snare him. Some insist, as does Chicago, that he carry a full teaching load. "I don't know how much permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead...
...West Coast kids like Mammoth Mountain in the Sierras, which is now so swamped that skiers wait 45 minutes for a lift. A few students, here and there, are going all the way to Italy or Spain. And, as ever, there is also a small clique of connoisseurs who insist on going to a great place called New York...
...Beeson wryly and accurately describes himself as "a little-performed composer." He is apt to continue to be if he insists on composing operas which involve a huge commitment of time and money by anyone daring enough to produce them. Beeson does insist. "It is a crazy passion and there is not much sense to it," he explains, "but I like to write opera...