Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland, whose applications for associate membership insist on the preservation of their neutral status...
...more legitimate objection: the claim that renewing diplomatic relations with Cuba is politically impossible in this country; Americans simply will not accept it. Yet it ought to be pointed out that the people have never heard a reasonable and unemotional presentation of the problem. It is too easy to insist that everybody wants a Cuban invasion after everybody has listened to endless denunciations of Cuban Communism and Soviet aggression...
...refined skill in the North. Only the naive take the fact that a firm keeps no records about race as proof of fair employment policy. Only a color-conscious count of heads can discover de facto discrimination. And obviously, the government cannot excuse from such counts those institutions which insist upon their righteousness...
...tradition of naming sons after fathers seems to be changing; a psychologically hip society has dampened the once-popular nickname "Junior." Parents who insist on carrying on the male name frequently use it as a second name or occasionally switch to II, III or IV as suffixes...
...where health officials have made it clear that the information will never reach the police.) Laboratories, it is proposed, should be compelled to report all positive reactions. Once bitten by overoptimism, the VD crusaders are now doubly shy of any letdown. There must be no cutback in funds, they insist, until the great pox is really conquered. Dr. Brown warned that as cases become fewer, finding them will become harder-and perhaps more costly...