Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonial administrators found it easier to make major decisions without consulting the populace. In the same way, one-party leaders like Nyerere and Nkrumah insist that they cannot afford the luxury of dissent and opposition. Many argue, by way of rationalization, that the one-party state is a modern adaptation of traditional tribal society, in which the individual was free to ex press his viewpoint under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks...
...Forceful Tampering. Diplomats at the U.N. would be equally happy to forget all about the Cyprus problem, which last week was returned to the Security Council after U Thant's failure to provide a solution through backstage jockeying. The Greek Cypriots, led by their President, Archbishop Makarios, stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain under the Charter from tampering by force with the territorial integrity and independence of other members-a device by which Makarios hopes to bar Turkey from interfering with his own island war against the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...British like to insist that, more than most nations, they must trade in order to live. Lately they have been trading as never before; their exports rose to a record $11.4 billion in 1963. But Britons have also been living it up as never before. With more money to spare than ever, British consumers are indulging their taste for foreign luxury goods, and British businessmen are importing huge amounts of raw material to keep their expanding factories busy. After months of nervously watching the spectacle, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his financial agents were alarmed when January...
...current policy in many colleges to insist upon a strictly ordered series of courses leading to a degree should be abandoned in favor of a system which would perimt far more freedom of choice, according to Taylor. Today's student heads for his A.B. degree, he said, "merely because everyone else is doing the same thing...
...School Committee finally started to move. Eisenstadt and Lee for the first time joined Gartland in asking for communication with the boycott organizers. This change in attitude took courage and deserves praise. Hopefully, the Committee will make the change official at its meeting today. The members should not insist, as does Mrs. Hicks, that the boycott be cancelled as a prelude to discussions. Such a demand would oblige the Negro community to surrender its only bargaining advantage and to trust blindly in the good faith of the Committee. The attitude of school authorities over the last half-year doesn...