Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fairly predictable. The Communists will demand a total cessation of U.S. air strikes and all other acts of war against the North (presumably including naval bombardments and artillery shells lobbed across the Demilitarized Zone) before they will consent to talk about "other matters." In its turn, the U.S. will insist on a quid pro quo under the San Antonio formula that Johnson enunciated last September. As Defense Secretary Clark Clifford defined it, the prescription calls for the U.S. to stop the bombing if North Viet Nam indicates that it will continue "to transport the normal amount of goods, munitions...
...judging from an earlier Chicago gallery showing of Red Grooms's work, they will leave delighted. And why not? The whole construction is a cross between a set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Disneyland. Is it art? Directors of museums and owners of art galleries insist that it, and similar installations, are. The general term for them is "environments"; their aim is to box the spectator within a micro-universe and bombard him from all sides with wacky sights, weirdo sounds and otherworldly sensations, ranging from the feeling of weightlessness to hopped-up, psychedelic hallucinations. So popular...
Although no official statement has yet been made on the progress of negotiations between the students and the administration, several reliable sources here indicate that Columbia offered to let all the demonstrators off with mere warnings. The students, however, insist on no punishment...
...food makers insist that there is a little of the gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument more than 80% of it on television. Accounting for some 75% of the advertising dollars were: General Foods (Gaines and Top Choice-$11.5 million), Ralston Purina (Chow-$11 1 million), Quaker Oats (Puss 'n Boots Ken-L Ration-$9,000,000), Carnation (Friskies-$4.2 million), and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Alpo-$4,000,000). Ten years ago, the entire industry spent only $21.2 million on advertising...
...University force had not fired a shot for at least six years; but that statistic doesn't prove they don't need weapons. Some professional law enforcers go through whole careers without discharging their weapons--while the same guns save the lives of their buddies. Most professionals also insist that arms have a crucial preventive effect. Trouble-makers are less likely to challenge an armed officer even in dark and remote surroundings...