Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concession on inspection, the U.S.S.R upped the ante. For example, the U.S. had originally held out for a 27-month moratorium on "small blasts," while the Soviets demanded a halt of four or five years; when the U.S. proposed a compromise of three years, the U.S.S.R. decided to insist upon an "indefinite" moratorium. Again, the U.S. originally wanted 20 on-site inspections a year in Russia, while the Soviets would tolerate only three. A couple of weeks ago, when the U.S.'s tough, patient Negotiator Arthur Dean offered a new compromise plan providing for twelve inspections annually on Soviet...
...space kick. Members displayed some really far-out signs; some of the best (or worst) were "Let's play space tennis--you bring the rockets," "Pleased to meteor," "Is your wife backwards? Give her a retro-rocket for Xmas," "There is no lead in our astronaut," and "Insist on a genuine Van Allen belt...
...insist that everyone take an interest in the Cambridge community would be as foolish as it would be unrealistic. The usual argument for the presence of the undergraduate at Harvard is that he is here to study...
Doorstep Murder. While police hustled the kicking, screaming man from the court, Baron von Freudiger brushed tears from his eyes. The interruption was a grim reminder of the bitterness that still ravages the Hungarian Jews who escaped Nazi annihilation. Some survivors insist that rich Jews bought their freedom by shipping poor Jews to the ovens of Auschwitz. One of the baron's colleagues. Dr. Rudolf Kastner, was denounced by an Israeli court in 1955 for his dealings with the Nazis. Later, Kastner was murdered on his doorstep by vengeful Jews...
Thus, delays in submitting the plans for Corporation approval have been particularly disappointing; and the delay over the winter has apparently been the University's fault. Harvard officials, however, continue to insist that tardiness in approving the drawings will not necessarily mean that the building will not be ready in the fall...