Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the use of modern weapons--a consensus which will make the international police problems easier than is frequently supposed. Millis does not foresee a comprehensive world government nor does he seek to purge the power element from international relations. His international police will only have the authority to insist that power disputes be settled non-militarily. Their success in this endeavor rests squarely on the endurance of the pacifist consensus; the international police will be unable to prevent the resumption of the arms race, for their job will be purely investigatory...
...their pursuit of academic excellence, the better liberal-arts teachers insist that their students read the original writings of the world's great thinkers and then take essay tests for comprehension of ideas rather than multiple-choice quizzes for recall of facts. This strains both the study time of the student and the grading time of the teacher-but neither has ever been shy about seeking short cuts. And, sometimes openly, sometimes secretively, a shortcut device known as the "cept" is creeping across U.S. college campuses...
...demonstration commemorated the Sharpeville massacre of 68 non-violent demonstrators on March 21, 1960. By putting pressure on private investment in South Africa, the Boston Committee hopes to reduce the 400 million dollars U.S. trade which is supporting the segregationist regime. U.N. and African leaders insist that sanctions on trade are the only alternative to a bloody race war in South Africa...
...course, wrote Buchwald, Democrats would hotly insist they had known all along that Goldwater would plunge the U.S. into a war. Republicans would argue that Goldwater had no choice, that anyway he had merely inherited the Viet Nam mess from the Democrats. "It all seems far-fetched," allowed Buchwald, "and I may have let my imagination run away with itself, because even Barry Goldwater wouldn't have gone so far. But fortunately, with President Johnson at the helm, we don't even have to think about...
...hormone. Survival rates were good among Barr-negative patients who did not get testosterone. But the Barr-negative patients who took the hormone survived, on the average, a much shorter time. A Vienna study of 201 patients produced similar results. But the cautious German and Austrian researchers still insist that it will take a thousand or more cases, studied for years in minutest detail, to show whether their Barr-body theory is correct...