Word: insist
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Though many Englishmen piously insist that they have no racial problem, the government's bill is an admission, in the Spectator's words, that "the British people are no more resistant to color prejudice than the people of, say, Chicago.'' Though Britain has only 400,000 colored residents (less than 1% of the population), a recent survey reported that 90% of Englishmen interviewed believe that immigration should be restricted. Industrialists welcome the newcomers, since they are more mobile, industrious, and willing to "work dirty." Yet a widespread prejudice, expressed by Tory M.P. Sir Cyril Osborne...
What distinguishes them from respectable conservatives, who are enjoying a resurgence of their own? To the ultras, the fear of Communism at home is so great that they often discount the threat of Russian arms to a ridiculous extent: some still insist that the Russians have not developed an H-bomb. In everything that he finds displeasing in modern society and political life, the ultra sees evidence of Communist plots and subversion. With a dogmatic either-or attitude, he broaches no disagreement. "You're either for us or against us," says James E. Gibson, senior vice president of California...
...exercise, and I urge my patients to watch it as much as possible. Many people prefer to be close to the instrument for comfort, and that is where those people should sit. Some prefer to sit across the room and that is where they should sit. To insist that a child move away from the screen because that is where an adult prefers to sit may be enough to give him a headache and bring on nausea and vomiting...
They know, for example, that of all the provisions of the Act those covering foreign travel are constitutionally the weakest. In 1958, the Court upheld the freedom to travel in Kent v. Dulles, and although reluctant to specify if this freedom could be abused, it certainly did not insist that government officials do their best to limit it. In other words, as soon as the State Department initiates a repressive policy such as forcing subversives to state their affiliations on passport applications, it transforms its employees into contitutional interpreters. And foreign service officers are hardly competent to decide...
...into the auto market (the use of aluminum in cars has doubled since 1955 to an average 63 Ibs. on new models), prestressed concrete has won widespread use in the construction field, and steadily improving plastics are displacing steel in containers, furniture and pipe. Still a greater threat, steelmen insist, comes from imported steel. While they tend to exaggerate the foreign pressure, imports now take a steady 5% of the U.S. market and, confidently expecting to get more, Europe's hustling steelmakers are expanding capacities well beyond their own countries' needs...