Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft, the Skyraider is a much more powerful warplane and almost twice as fast as the B26. Armed with 20-mm. cannon, Skyraiders distinguished themselves in Korea for their close support of the Marines. But the improvement is belated. As to the question, "Why not jets?", Air Force men insist that slower planes are better for Viet Nam's kind of jungle...
...Pacific island who bicker internally and battle externally until they are driven to declare a truce. But the hard-won armistice ends in mutual and inevitable annihilation. Defined by the director as "an integrated picture," its stars are 17 Japanese actors who cannot speak English,* 18 Americans who insist that they can, and Sinatra's singing son-in-law, Tommy Sands (married to Sinatra's daughter Nancy). The old man himself steps in front of the camera to play a small part as a boozing, brawling Navy pharmacist, runs back behind it crying "Perfect! Cut!" after completing...
They recall his reluctance to make more than one big speech a day, insist that he spent too much of his time napping in hotel suites. They contend that national Republican campaign managers had to cut his appearance schedule in half, that he often refused to share either cocktails or dinner with local hosts, whisking onto the scene only to deliver his speech and then disappearing. They say he even declined to ride in cars with lesser candidates, declaring: "I ride only with my wife...
...Italian mass market, which has tempted some businessmen to stretch olive oil with water and parmigiano cheese with sawdust, the Agnesis steadfastly insist on quality. Their spaghetti is made only from expensive durum wheat; lately it has become even more expensive because the company began importing U.S. and Canadian wheat when demand outran Italian supplies. But Agnesi spaghetti also sells for more, and proud Nonagenarian Paolo further insists that it be consumed correctly-with only a fork and with as little sauce as possible. Shocked when he heard that Germans were eating spaghetti as a side dish to sausage, Agnesi...
Peruvians insist that smaller catches are due merely to a temporary shift in ocean currents, not overfished waters. But everyone agrees that too many people are out fishing. "Two or three years ago," says one Lima skipper, "you seldom saw more than 100 seiners fishing at the same time. Nowadays you see as many as 300 go to work on a school...