Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lots of Sweat. There are a few spoilsports around the National League who insist that Perry's sudden prowess is due to another magic ingredient. "You want to bet $100 he doesn't throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...
...billion. Instead of the $2,900,000 that each plane was supposed to cost when the contract was awarded, the price tag is now expected to be $5,000,000 for every F-111A, $8,000,000 for every F-111B. But the Defense Department continues to insist that the F-111 is a cost-cutting undertaking, partly because the Pentagon plans to convert it into a strategic bomber known as the FB-111, which would replace older...
...Never, insist the worriers, have the hairlike sensors of the inner ear twitched to such a range of roaring, buzzing, beeping, grinding, howling, jangling, blaring, booming, screeching, whining, gnashing and crashing. And it seems to be getting worse all the time. The more militant anti-pollutionists blame racket for such woes as heart disease, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers and sexual impotence...
...Poison. Most textbook publishers insist that they do not produce separate editions for North and South. Though they are not aggressively marketing multiracial books in the South, they do expect to get more sales there. Some publishers tell school-district leaders that books bought with federal aid must be racially balanced. Actually, the law has no such requirement and, says an official of the U.S. Office of Education, that kind of federal control would be "just political poison-totally out of the question...
Harvard could insist that the Observatory hold public lectures to which both Negroes and whites are invited, and it could encourage qualified Negro students to do research at the observatory, Usher said. "We have a number of cards up our sleeve which we haven't used," he added...