Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know Clay, and hold no especial brief for him, but I insist that as a freeborn American citizen he has the right to associate himself with any group, even if they do not believe in the current craze to utilize the federal power to compel race mixing in every area of life. We have come to a pretty pass in this country, where a man who conscientiously believes in separation of the races is to be penalized and denied his rights on account of his beliefs...
Known to his friends as "Poju" [boy], a reference to his youthful appearance, Tuomioja is respected for his even temper, intelligence and ability to listen. He will need all these gifts and more. The Turkish Cypriots and their mother country insist that Cyprus be partitioned or changed into a cantonal federation to give each national group its own domain. Greece refuses even to discuss partition, and will demand first of all a new constitution free of the hampering minority rights for Turkish Cypriots embedded in the 1960 document. Mediator Tuomioja hopes to complete his mission in the specified three-month...
Painfully Solemn. Some of them insist that it was caused by a comet; others prefer to believe that a huge, extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Siberia, or perhaps jettisoned nuclear fuel that exploded and dug the crater. In 1959, an expedition of students from Tomsk University claimed to have found that the area is still radioactive, and so many Russians accepted their observations that the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent its own expedition-which found no abnormal radioactivity...
...exterminate the Jews? Last week in Rome, Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the College of Cardinals, more or less agreed with those Catholics who argue that a statement by Pius would not have stopped the genocide. At the same time, the Frenchman lent support to critics who insist that the Pope, as a moral authority, should have spoken...
...Surgeon General's report that cigarette smoking endangers health. Instead, they put forth their case on the grounds of economic necessity and freedom of enterprise. Said North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford: "We do not label automobiles dangerous, although they are one of the greatest killers. We do not insist that whisky be labeled with advice that one out of 15 who takes a first drink will become an alcoholic." The cigarette company presidents were conspicuously absent, but their attorney argued that only Congress-not the FTC -has the power to order such drastic labeling rules. Other critics pointed...