Word: insist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rivals backhandedly insist that Margaret Smith is "as strong as the average man." At hearing that Margaret shudders slightly, smiles sweetly, and says: "I'm really a homey type." Last week she certainly seemed in a hurry to get home. At South Orange, N.J., in the finals of the Eastern Grass Court championships, she needed only 24 minutes to wallop the U.S.'s No. 1-ranked Darlene Hard...
...Racing Association makes up the deficit. That annoys Albany politicians, who nowadays count on racing revenues to provide some $110 million (about 4%) of the budget, and would like an even bigger take. But a tradition-honoring state law guarantees Saratoga 24 days of racing each year, and horsemen insist that they will never give them up. "Not till the springs dry up," says one. "We work for the state all year at Aqueduct. Saratoga...
Civil rights is only a political issue because men like Sen. Thurmond insist upon playing on and contributing to the prejudice of their constituents. From the Pentagon's point of view, it is basically a Constitutional, not political, problem, and the Army has every right, if not an obligation, to insist that its representatives actively work against Constitutional infringements...
...Central Europe. The U.S. points out that Soviet soldiers would withdraw only a few hundred miles to their own territory while U.S. infantry would, in effect, have to be pulled back clear across the Atlantic. If the U.S. were to consider this idea at all, it would insist on compensation for the Soviet tactical advantage: the U.S. would want three or four Russian soldiers withdrawn for every...
July-October. Switching to another track, the unions ask for a study by a presidential commission. The railroads insist that the commission proposals be binding. The unions balk at that. Finally the railroads agree to a non-binding study...