Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert insist that House Democrats must stick to the party line, and they are preparing to discipline renegades severely by stripping them of seniority and desirable committee assignments if they fail to vote for Humphrey. House Republican Leader Jerry Ford has cannily avoided making any such threats to G.O.P. Congressmen. For one thing, he knows how much easier it will be for Republicans to pledge their support to Nixon than it will be for all Democrats-particularly Southerners-to promise in advance to back Humphrey. In fact, Ford is prepared to welcome defecting...
...importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint of emphasis, his offhand delivery which would insist that remarks about the future of the world were best delivered in the tone you - might employ for buying a bottle of aspirin, gave hint of his profound conservatism...
Unlike the Beatles of two years ago, the Stones insist that they will not change their cover. "We don't find it at all offensive, so we must stand by it," says Mick Jagger. "If we allow them to dictate to us what we can and cannot do in the way of packaging, next they are going to try to tell us what to sing." Last week the argument was in the hands of the lawyers for both sides...
Elusive Goal. For the candidates and their teams of economic advisers, today's U.S. economy poses a complex challenge: how to combine prosperity with price stability. Many economists insist that an unwelcome degree of inflation is almost inevitable in times of minuscule unemployment. Humphrey says that he is "determined" to keep unemployment low and prices stable, partly through "timely fiscal action" and better labor productivity. Nixon also insists that the goal can be reached, but he places more reliance on getting there by shrinking the federal deficit...
Equally important, the community has failed in its most immediate and critical task: convincing all the parties in the controversy that someone is really listening to their case. Mayor White appointed the two black members of the Committee, a power which community leaders insist should have been left to Roxbury's Black United Front. Students are also pointing out that they have no representatives on the mayor's group...