Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They insist 'to this day that Abraham Lincoln should have accepted their King Mong-kut's timely offer of elephants in 1862. Regretfully, Lincoln explained to the King that the U.S. climate did not "favor the multiplication of the elephant." It is possible, nonetheless, that if the Union had been able to field a pachydermous panzer division, the U.S. Civil War might have been foreshortened...
Extraordinary Book. Dr. Glueck is quick to insist that for all his accomplishment, his work touches only one aspect of archaeology's many-sided search for man's past. Until rather recently, history began with Herodotus, who wrote in Greece about 450 B.C. But great civilizations rose and fell long before the Greeks, and were forgotten except for legend...
Brokers often hold such stock in the brokerage firm's name, and if the customer signs a "hypothecation agreement"-as he is frequently asked to-the broker has the right to borrow from banks on his stock. Anyone can refuse to sign the agreement and insist that the stock be registered in his own name, but some Wall Street legal experts insist that the safest path for the customer is to 1) pay for the securities and take them home, or 2) if he wants to buy on margin, borrow from a bank instead of a brokerage house...
...advisers in Viet Nam are doggedly optimistic, insist that the morale of the South Vietnamese is rising and predict decisive battles within a few weeks, when the dry season drains the swamps and paddyfields, making fighting easier...
...avoid the worst, Etiemble is preparing a dictionary (Parlez-Vous Franglais?) of French equivalents for Anglicisms. Even where there is none whatever (for Jeep, say), he will insist on French spelling (Jipe). Guillermou is devising a linguistic decompression chamber: a new French glossary with three sections-white pages for acceptable words, red for inadmissible ones, and green pages that "will be a sort of Ellis Island of the French vocabulary. After suitable nationalization, the words may move into the white pages...