Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away with the need for a lengthy trial by producing a fast guilty plea-a "cop-out." And, after weeks in a county jail, many a criminal defendant is more than willing to plead guilty, to settle for a judge's quick sentence rather than insist upon his constitutional right to trial by jury. To spur the copout, prosecutors may offer a variety of guilty pleas to lesser charges...
Scornful of the emotionalism and accident in abstract expressionism, op artists know where they stand. Precision is their pleasure. Their art instantly engages the beholder, yet does not demand his involvement or insist that he relate it to the world of objects, emotions or experiences. Op fascinates the way a kaleidoscope does a child. Its pitfall is that fascination often turns, by repetition, to boredom...
...strategy of the Administration and the Democratic leadership in the Senate had been to insist that the benefit increases and Medicare be considered together. Otherwise, they felt, Medicare would have little chance of passage during the session...
...relied upon to set national standards. The present split is between those who believe in "judicial restraint"-men who feel that real power should reside with elected officials and that the Court may eventually destroy itself by assuming too much-and so-called "judicial activists"-those who insist that the far-ranging provisions of a great Constitution have never yet been fully applied to American life and that the Constitution would die if not continuously restudied in the light of modern life...
...labor leaders go, Walter Reuther and Thomas Gleason are about as different as possible: one the smooth, articulate head of the tightly organized auto workers' union, the other the abrasive president of the rebellious and racket-tainted longshoremen. But both Reuther and Gleason insist on the importance of those vexatious laws of the laborer's life, the work rules...