Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris newspaper Le Monde reflected the troubled conscience of Frenchmen faced once more by crisis at home and war abroad that could neither be won nor ended. "Certainly these Soviet approaches furnish arguments for those politicians and military men who insist that our army fights for the defense of the West in Algeria," said Le Monde. "But does not experience prove, on the contrary, that it is the continuation of the war which draws Communist influence to Algeria...
What bothers the U.N.. its officials ex plain, is the danger that Mobutu's regime might become a military dictatorship; they insist that the world organization cannot even indirectly support an undemocratic movement. Time after time, U.N. officials had refused to let Mobutu arrest Lumumba; now they were frustrating his efforts to put a halt to the covert activities of Lumumba's friends as well. When Mobutu's troops arrested 15 Lumumba supporters in a series of predawn raids and tried to deport most of them to faraway Kasai province, the U.N. quickly intervened...
...rooms. But he does little to dispel their growing bitterness. Klein is well aware that reporters in both camps are predominantly Democratic (and their publishers predominantly Republican). The ratio is 2 to 1 for Kennedy, according to one informal straw vote aboard the Nixon press plane. But most reporters insist they know how to separate their own convictions from their reporting, and say that Nixon's assistants are too ready to find real or imagined injury. In Springfield, Mo., after Reporter Potter asked what Klein considered a deliberately needling question, Klein sent an angry protest to Potter...
...group still starts with "a certain musical vision," worked out in countless rehearsals and set down in graphs and Foss's own specially devised symbols. "If we hit something good," says Foss, "we try to remember it. If something bad, we try to forget it." The technique, insist the players, is far more complex than that of jazz. "It's the difference between playing slapjack and playing bridge...
Similarly, Beat novels lack structure and thus interpretation, character and thus causality. The point, it appears, is simply to insist that something happened, always on the road, on the move...