Word: insist
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Both the American Constitution, under which the Puerto Ricans live, and their own Commonwealth Constitution of 1952, insist on the separation of religious and political powers. And Cardinals Spellman and Cushing in this country both opposed the Puerto Rican hierarchy's stand--although it is specifically provided for under canon law. These considerations, however, are secondary to the mandate of the popular vote...
...electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold was preparing to dispatch a 15-man African and Asian conciliation commission to seek a fresh approach to the whole mess, the U.N. Congo chief, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, sent back...
...second Charles Eliot Norton Lecture, Bentley attributed the popularity of good plots to man's wish to live dramatically. "We insist that every 24 hours be a drama in 24 acts," he said. As proof of his statement, Bentley pointed to the universality of dreaming. "Once we realize we dream most of the time," he said, "we will understand the importance of plot...
...secret," wrote the liberal Democratic New York Post, that before the Los Angeles convention it "advocated the nomination of Adlai Stevenson. [But] in a world that so often seems to be living on borrowed time, we cannot afford the luxury of a great national mistake, nor insist on perfection in the candidate we support . . . We are for Kennedy...
What Hit Him? But whiplash should not be so lightly dismissed, insist Drs. Robert Leopold and Harold Dillon of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Neurology and Psychiatry. In a study of 47 whiplash victims, Drs. Leopold and Dillon found a considerably higher incidence of actual physical injury (14 "severe" cases, 26 "moderate") than did Dr. Threadgill...