Word: insist
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Unwitting Support. Thus the commission unwittingly lent support to those who would later insist that Lee Harvey Oswald must have had an accomplice. Their suspicions were based primarily on the commission's controversial "single-bullet theory." This is its conclusion that a bullet hit the back of Kennedy's neck and emerged through his lower throat before it struck Texas Governor John Connally in the back, smashed across a rib, shattered his right wrist, and punctured his left thigh. Commission members accepted this explanation after they saw a tourist's film of the assassination, which indicated that...
Provocative Hairs. Nobody knows just where or when the fad first began. Easterners say that it started in the West; students at U.C.L.A., one of the few schools where the fad has not caught on, insist that "it looks like it came from New York." There is a suspicion that thousands of students have taken it up for no other reason than that their socks are in the laundry...
...interpreted this way, as evidence for his faith in eternal life. Like the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection may well be a mysterious event, understandable only to the eye of faith and not historically verifiable in the way that Jesus' death on the cross can be authenticated. Nonetheless, theologians insist that the Resurrection has a profound, inexhaustible meaning for man. To Harvey Cox, for example, "the Resurrection points to the radically open character of human history. The unexpected can happen. There is a basis for hope. Life is full of surprise...
...flurry of objections has greeted the announcement that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara will speak to only two small groups of undergraduates during his visit to Harvard this Sunday and Monday. The critics insist that McNamara should debate Ramparts magazine editor Robert Scheer, or at least talk to a larger audience. But they miss the point of inviting public figures to be honorary associates of the Kennedy Institute...
...considering how much effort goes into it. At Tennessee, Coach Doug Dickey allots 60% of his practice time to passing drills, only 40% to running-although passing accounts for only 40% of the Volunteers' offense. U.C.L.A.'s Prothro and Notre Dame's Parseghian both insist that their quarterbacks throw for at least half an hour every day, in season and out. The quarterbacks rarely have to be reminded. There's no trick to learning how to pass, says John Huarte, star of Parseghian's 1964 Notre Dame team (which lost only to Southern...