Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, in less sensational form, student committees promoting sexual freedom have been organized at Stanford, the University of Texas and U.C.L.A. Mainly they demand that college health services provide contraceptives to any students desiring them, and insist that sexual conduct in private is strictly a personal matter not to be regulated by schools or laws. In Austin, The Texas Student League for Responsible Sexual Freedom has 18 members so far, led by Senior Tom Maddux. He contends that limiting birth control pills to married women is "ridiculous," society's attitude toward homosexuality is "hypocritical," and laws against sodomy...
Penn has been ruled out of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball tournament because officials of the NCAA insist Penn "will not comply" with the NCAA's 1.6 academic legislation, NCAA headquarters in Kansas City reported last night...
...Viet Nam. Our answer is what it has been here for 200 years: the people must have this right-the South Vietnamese people-and no one else. Washington will not impose a government not of their choice. Hanoi shall not impose a government not of their choice. We will insist for ourselves on what we require from Hanoi: respect for the principle of government by the consent of the governed...
...some of Moro's (and his) fellow Christian Democrats into voting down a trivial nursery-school bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Fanfani wanted more than to just get back into the Cabinet. He wanted Moro out. So he persuaded the right wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion of their leader, ex-Premier Mario Scelba, in any new Cabinet. Why? Because, naturally, as a bitter foe of the left, Scelba was certain to be rejected by Moro's Socialist coalition partners, and thereby force a new deadlock to plague Moro...
...distraction than an enlightment, and that the dormitory atmosphere is isolated--an Ivory Tower. Others complain that they want to be able to run their own lives, eating when they like, selecting their own company, and winning a sense of independence. Finally there are the economists who insist that they could exist much more comfortably at a lower cost; in fact, many students are paying for two sets of meals--the ones they don't eat in the House and the ones they buy instead...