Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if it can be proven that Wallenberg did not die in 1947, as the Soviets insist, that by no means insures that he is alive today. Nevertheless, as long as the possibility exists--and it does--that Raoul Wallenberg is still alive, the search to find him must remain alive as well. Books like Righteous Gentile must nag at our collective conscience. Our truly great humanitarians come too few and far between for us to let them sink away in ignominy...
...upset: no one knows it is happening: everyone turns to the sports page when they pick up the paper. If there was ever a lesson in cooptation it is to be found on this campus. It's hard, though, to coopt people who are angry enough to insist on justice: that Harvard has done it so easily says something damning about the willingness of students to be lullabied...
Though husbands and wives living far apart seem to be a recipe for extramarital sex, researchers insist that commuters do not have any more affairs than stay-at-home couples. The reason seems to be that so much concentration is poured into work and marriage that little time, or energy, is left over. The commuters, say researchers, single-mindedly await the day when they can become ordinary one-city folk again."They are functioning on 'deferred gratification,' " says Sociologist Sussman. They are, in other words, the new troops of the Protestant ethic, enduring hardship now for the sake...
...Sandinistas insist that their new armed forces are strictly defensive in nature. The Nicaraguans charge Honduras, for example, with tolerating the presence of as many as 2,000 supporters of former Dictator Somoza, who regularly launch guerrilla attacks on Nicaragua. The Sandinistas also claim that the U.S. is trying to undermine their government and cite the fact that ex-Somoza supporters have been getting military training in Florida...
...Actor William Conrad, 61, has specialized in meting out justice. In his latest role, he is still enforcing the law, but with an Oriental twist. Taking on the title role in a new TV production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, the portly Conrad will insist in his amateur baritone that the punishment fit the crime. "He's a great big cuddly granddad-Santa Claus with a lovely voice," says Singer Kate Flowers, 29, who plays the heroine Yum-Yum in the musical, which was taped in London. Conrad enjoyed himself so much that he intends...