Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk seems incapable of viewing a situation empirically. Not only does he insist on transposing the "eternal truths" of Munich onto the conflict in Vietnam, but he refuses to question his interpretation of Chamberlain's failure. For example, Rusk claims that it was "necessary" for President Kennedy to "inform Mr. Khrushchev that the United States would not yield to an ultimatum concerning Berlin" in 1962, just as England should have demonstrated that it would not yield to the German ultimatum over Czechoslovakia in 1938. If Khrushchev had not believed that ultimatum, according to Rusk, "there would have been...
Diehard fans insist that the Yanks will come around. But the Orioles have already walloped them four out of five, and the second-place Cleveland Indians, who tied a modern major-league record with ten straight victories, have beaten them twice in a row. Says Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline: "They used to come out on the field, and you just knew they expected to win. There isn't much of that any more...
...development of scientific crime detection. Moreover, no matter how far the Supreme Court goes, a large number of suspects will always be "gatemouths," compulsive confessors who need no encouragement to announce their guilt. "Human nature saves us," says one California prosecutor. "People talk anyway." In Seattle, for example, police insist that a burglar recently emerged from a skylight to be confronted by two waiting cops with drawn guns. Their first words: "You have the right to remain silent; you may consult an attorney before you make a statement; anything you say may be held against you." Astonished, the burglar admitted...
...result: 90% of U.S. defendants plead guilty and are swiftly sentenced without a trial. In effect, most of them are convicted by the police-not by judges and juries. And since most police insist that interrogation must be secret, the courts have no way of knowing just what led up to the confession. Without tapes, films or neutral witnesses, judges have no way of determining whether a suspect really talked freely or was tricked or bullied into "waiving" his right to silence, or even into confessing falsely-a not unknown reaction to the sinister air of the police station...
...have to insist that we are citizens and that the politicians have to listen to us....The trouble is that we haven't got organized enough to tell them that we want this highway stopped," William P. Homans, an attorney and ex-state representative, told the group. Homans has assumed an informal leadership role in "Save Our Cities...