Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usually the wife was boss, and her weak-willed husband was content to play the subservient role-until he had a few drinks. Then "role alternation" would take place, and the husband would insist belligerently upon his conjugal rights. The wife, whose father had usually been a wife beater, would resist. The ensuing fight had, however, helpful overtones. "The periods of violent behavior by the husband," the doctors observed, "served to release him momentarily from his anxiety about his ineffectiveness as a man, while giving his wife apparent masochistic gratification and helping probably to deal with the guilt arising from...
...will have to come during the Fall Faculty meetings. Because the heart of the report is in the substantive material--changes in distribution rules and rearming the administrative structure, Dean Ford's desire for an early vote of confidence on broad issues may be frustrated. Nonetheless, Ford will insist that the Faculty consider the report first in terms of the broad aims and needs it outlines, then in terms of the assumptions and operating rules of the new program, and finally in terms of administrative change...
...Freedom Party caucuses in the Union Baptist Church. The delegates vote unanimously to reject the compromise. They insist the regular Mississippi delegation will use the loyalty oath as a superficial shield for its Goldwaterism...
...also a terrific lot of boobs, about whom I must warn you. (The Admissions Committee, you know; and with all this scholarship money, there doesn't seem to be any end to it.) They are so frightfully earnest (I detest the word "wonkish," don't you?), and they simply insist upon taking over everything. Hardly a thing remains in Good Hands, you know...
...week operation-creates other controversies. Baptist Minister the Rev. Dale Ihrie of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., financed his church by selling bonds to his congregation; they liked it because "they owe the money to themselves," and he liked it because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken began a $15,500,000 campaign, partly...