Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomat in the Far East, to ease up on the battlefield would be "to ensure a loss at the bargaining table." Furthermore, if talks broke down after a ceasefire, it would be difficult to regain the momentum to start the war up again. Some U.S. diplomats also insist that any talks should have a time limit and not be allowed to go on indefinitely, and that a system for supervision and inspection of whatever measures may eventually be agreed on should be nailed down first...
Until the President puts to use "the leadership powers that are unquestionably his" and submits standards, he has "no good reason" to object to the new committee-action procedure, Maass and Cooper insist...
...Peter, informed Secretary Rusk that North Vietnam would come to the bargaining table if American bombing raids were suspended. The Russians conveyed a similar message through the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Foy Kohler. Finally, editorials in Nhan Dan, the official Hanoi newspaper, indicated that North Vietnam would no longer insist on the withdrawal of American troops as a precondition to peace talks...
...participants belonged to the 17-year-old Evangelical Theological Society, whose 750 members are divided about equally between mainstream Protestants and adherents of such sects as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Speaking for an intellectual conservatism within U.S. Protestantism, Evangelicals shun the label-and company-of fundamentalists who would insist that every comma in the Bible is divinely inspired, stand closest theologically to Billy Graham. The leading Evangelical theologians include Dr. Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary, and Dean Kenneth S. Kantzer of the Trinity Evangelical School at Deerfield, Ill. They use the tools...
...Unit sales," says Federated's Lazarus, "no longer tell the whole story." Nowadays consumers quibble less over prices, instead insist on quality. As a result, stores are upgrading even bargain basements, and discounters must stock more expensive merchandise to compete. Few stores had a better Christmas than Tiffany's, where sales rose 30%. Explains Chairman Walter Hoving: "The excise-tax cut made people feel more prosperous. They spent their money on jewels." The A. & P. is grading up its image with the ultimate symbol of affluence: its own "A.& P. Champagne" (cost...