Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant-though his main stated objection was that on their earlier stay the Indians had brought an entourage of 400, who took over the best houses in town, refused to bathe in anything but soda water and cost Laos $12,000 a month in upkeep. The allies will also insist that Boun Oum broaden the political base of his government, which at the moment consists chiefly of his own relatives. Probability is that Souvanna would be asked to come back and join the Cabinet...
...based more on technical skill than on numbers of men in arms, and these five thousand would surely do more good in the peace corps than in basic training. If draft exemption runs into too much political opposition (and thus endangers the entire program), the least the Administration should insist upon is effective exemption in the form of deferment until...
...first place, fasting as a political weapon was developed by Nehru's nationalist mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, but is now regarded by New Delhi as in bad taste. Secondly, to justify keeping Master Tara Singh in jail without proof of crime, Nehru a month ago had to insist on a further extension of the same Preventive-Detention Act passed originally under British rule to allow the imprisonment of Gandhi, Nehru himself and other Indian freedom fighters. After the bill was rammed through by a 165-10-33 vote, loud cries of "Shame! Shame!" reverberated in the Lower House chamber...
...carrier is the third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames...
...totalitarian monolith, there can be no mutual trust. "Control systems are dependent upon an open society," says retiring AEC Chairman John McCone. "There can be no safe arrangement for the control of atomic or hydrogen weapons if countries such as the Soviet Union, its satellites and Red China insist upon secrecy...