Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of senseless mayhem practiced last week in Austin. Some of the violence of the frontier still lingers in the American character, they believe, aggravated to extremes in a few individuals by the pressure to succeed and the social and economic mobility of American society. Perhaps, as many psychiatrists insist, the American mother's increasingly powerful position in the family has weakened the ego of American men, who are with rare exceptions responsible for mass murder in the U.S. All, or none, of this may be true?or, most likely, part of it. But the fact is that mass murder...
Some states empower a doctor to order commitment to a mental hospital when he thinks a patient dangerous?at least long enough to subject him to a thorough examination by psychiatrists. Other states insist that the individual commit himself voluntarily, that his family commit him or that the courts remand him into hospital care. In such situations, the doctor can only try to persuade, though the psychotic is not notably amenable to having himself locked up. Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until...
Nonetheless, Lemnitzer gamely paid an inspection visit to Chièvres. Though Belgian officials wanted to helicopter him to the place, he insisted on riding the winding, potholed highway, a 1½-hour trip that the Belgians insist can be speeded up by a superhighway they have in mind. The little town itself boasts 3,171 inhabitants. Only a two-minute walk from grazing cows and wheat fields, it has four cafés, none of which will ever make the pages of Michelin. Chièvres' chief offerings are a 16th century Gothic chapel and a brewery...
First he said, the United States should withdraw its support from the Ky regime and insist that free elections be held in those parts of the country under firm government control. Any new civilian government, he declared, would immediately attempt to negotiate with the Viet Cong...
That is a lesson the railroads never really applied, and the Civil Aeronautics Board means to see that the airlines do not repeat the error. Though some critics insist that airline fares should be slashed across the board, the CAB so far has settled for approving almost any cut-rate special fare, and the prospects that this policy will change look small. Grumbles Delta Chairman C. E. Woolman: "There's everything but a fare for left-handed people with large heads...