Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile zone in front of the launching site were evacuated to hotels and fed at Government expense. For each of the Green River tests, nearly 1,000 people will have to be moved. Residents of the corridors over which the missiles fly are unaffected, since scientists insist that the odds against a mishap are astronomical once the big birds have achieved their ballistic trajectories. But merely evacuating residents from the launch areas and the spots where boosters are likely to fall can be a costly business; for the year alone, the House has approved payments...
There are countless football fans who still insist that Jim Thorpe, or maybe Bronco Nagurski, was the best running back who ever lived. But in the Cotton Bowl last week, there was not a man on the Dallas Cowboys' defensive unit who was not convinced that the best back in history was crouching just across the line of scrimmage with No. 32 on his back...
...however, quick to insist that the Environmental Health and Safety division would not abridge any researcher's academic freedom. "The statement doesn't mean we will be looking over his shoulder. We don't pass on the quality of his research, but only on the safety of the volunteer subjects...
...brought up to believe that sexual finesse is almost as important a social grace as, say, good table manners, it sometimes comes as a shock to be reminded that lust is one of the seven deadly sins. Moralists who insist on this fact are likely to be regarded as bores, or boors, or both. One moralist, however, who runs no such risk is a cheerful, youthful novelist named Robert Gover...
...basis of bodies, this might be called a government victory. Not so insist some American military men who argue that such defensive responses-whatever the penalty in lives to the Communist enemy-are wasting the strength of the Vietnamese forces as well as the $1,500,000 a day the U.S. is pumping into the country. These experts will not be happy until the government can organize regular "search and hold" operations in the southern rice country, Communism's stronghold...