Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Union officers insist that the fear spread by such incidents has damaged plant discipline because foremen shut their eyes to infractions rather than risk personal attack. The U.A.W. reports that troublemakers have set fires in some plants and damaged new cars by scratching the fresh paint with screwdrivers. Chrysler officials say that some machinery has been deliberately disabled. Douglas A. Fraser, head of the U.A.W.'s Chrysler department, warns: "Sabotage can be deadly, and some of that is going...
...repudiated the Administration's action. In particular, the radicals should drop their demand that ROTC be immediately abolished and should join in demanding a student-faculty referendum that will be binding on the Corporation. As yesterday's meeting at Memorial Church showed, the issue is so divisive that to insist upon immediate abolition is virtually to guarantee that no broad-based alliance will emerge...
...which Miss Graves was quoted as proclaiming that "these camels do not find their organization in the real world but are the result of my experience. I cannot imagine or perceive a camel until it is completed." It sounded rather as though she were kidding the highbrows who insist that great art must be abstract. Since the abstract artist-by definition-depicts shapes for which no exact models exist in the visible world, he sometimes refers to his work as "not perceived until completed...
...April are approaching-the deadline for filing is the 15th of this month-and the resentment of taxpayers points increasingly toward a ballot-box revolt. In a spontaneous outpouring of popular indignation, citizens by the thousands have deluged Washington with complaints about rising taxes. With much justice, they insist that the whole U.S. tax structure is inequitable, capricious and economically damaging...
...many-splendored thing. Optimists insist that it's sweeping the country. According to the Beatles, it's "all you need." Two new movies, however, give love such a mauling that it emerges bruised and battered, in an all but unrecognizable state...