Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hastily flew to the scene, last week set Sept. 16 as the new birth date for the federation -two days after the U.N. mission's findings will be made public. Both are sure that the U.N. will find a clear majority in favor of Malaysia, but they insist that the federation will come into being regardless of the report. The British last week also turned over internal self-government to Borneo and Sarawak...
Statistical Impossibility. In its pure state machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even...
...Indian air force will soon hold with the U.S. and British air commands. In an effort to silence his leftist critics. Nehru has won extensive promises from Russia and its satellites for missiles, fighters, and small arms. Top government officials expect little in substance from Soviet aid promises, but insist that the symbolism of such aid is necessary to maintain India's image of nonalignment...
...masters. Few deny the immensity of his musical genius (one Italian critic listens to Wagner recordings only while down on his knees). The world's orchestras have been permanently reformed and enriched by his advanced ear for harmony and color. Still, there are those who insist that Wagner's music should be outgrown by 20, like acne, an opinion that seems as eccentric as Wagner's own sham intellectualism. He was everything from eugenicist to antivivisectionist to amateur Buddhist, but recent and serious studies of his work still call him as much a philosopher as a composer...
Fearing that the increase in chicken tariffs is just the beginning of further bars against U.S. agricultural products, the U.S. has chosen to make it a test case in which to insist on American rights to a place in the Common Market food basket. It has urged the Common Market to rescind the chicken-tariff hike-which has cut U.S. chicken sales by two-thirds since last year. The Eurocrats on the Common Market Commission were willing to compromise, but were blocked by the Council of Ministers, who represent the six individual governments...