Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CIVIL RIGHTS. Goldwater's vote against the civil rights bill set this up as the key issue. If there is to be a major platform battle, Laird believes that it will be between Goldwater delegates who insist that the party advocate repeal of parts of the new bill and moderates who may propose much tougher measures than are included in the bill. Already, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, the Scranton spokesman on the Platform Committee, has urged a flat statement that the party considers the bill constitutional, which would go directly against Goldwater's declaration...
...steam, National Review is already looking beyond the election. This week it publishes a 16,000-word A Program for a Goldwater Administration. Sample advice: Goldwater should man the battlements of states' rights ("within the federal harem, the states today are merely eunuchs"), invade Cuba if necessary, insist that Russia dismantle its "world revolutionary apparatus" and retire to its borders...
...critics to attribute praise or blame for aspects of a production, but the director shoulders over-all artistic responsibility. Whose Hamlet did I see? Was much of Seale's direction retained? To what extent did Fletcher participate? Or did Reed barge in and take over, or at least insist on giving personal approval? Or were a lot of the players left to their own instinctual devices...
Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders-including our first President...
...hundred more guerrillas remained behind in northern Borneo, and the Tokyo talks got under way-but not for long. Macapagal proposed a four-nation Afro-Asian conciliation commission to mediate the dispute. Fine, said Sukarno playfully. How about Red China as one of the mediating powers? He did not insist on that condition, and Rahman was ready to accept mediation, provided the Indonesian guerrillas were called off. This Sukarno refused. In the end, the three leaders could only agree to turn over Macapagal's proposal to their subordinates. After the summit's failure, Sukarno hastened home, explaining...