Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Geneva on floods of hope only to be dashed against inflexible Soviet demands. President Eisenhower's cardinal rule is that a ban on tests is no ban at all unless it is policed by an inspection system. Yet the Russians are unwilling to give the necessary guarantees, insist on a simple, all-or-nothing moratorium without adequate enforcement. The boss of the control post in Russia must be a Russian; the commission may investigate only a small number of suspicious seismographic disturbances in any one year...
Some ophthalmologists still insist that the small corneal lenses should not be worn in active sports because of the risk of dislodgement. But several members of the Chicago Bears (hardly a sedentary group) wear them, notably Dr. William McColl, 29, All-America (Stanford University '52), with the Bears since 1952 and now in his second year as a resident in surgery at the University of Illinois. In his first season with the Bears, McColl's contacts fell out a few times, but he has no trouble now that they have been refitted. And Dr. McColl wears them into...
...futile, Allen went on, for the U.S. to insist that it is not in a space race with the U.S.S.R. In the eyes of the world, the U.S. is in the race whether it wants to be or not, and the world is largely judging the two entries by their performances. "Our space program," said Allen, onetime (1948-50) Assistant Secretary of State and longtime U.S. envoy overseas, "may be considered as a measure of our vitality and our ability to compete with a formidable rival, and as a criterion of our ability to maintain technological eminence worthy of emulation...
Family Man. Last week's emotional high point came when Jaccoud's wife Erna took the stand to insist that her unfaithful husband was a "devoted, exemplary family man, who saw to it that our children and I lacked nothing." His only flaw: "He did not spend his leisure time with his family." He was far too shy to be a killer, insisted Erna Jaccoud. Under the stress of her testimony, Defendant Jaccoud fainted dead away. After a 15-minute adjournment, the judge asked everyone to do his utmost to "get this painful part of the proceedings over...
...might well be San Pascual's last victory. Buttressed by Spanish priests who insist on orthodox Catholicism, Guatemala's hierarchy is finally determined to root out paganism and do away with the God of the Hills, the God of the Plains, and even that leering old devil who posed as a saint, Maxim...