Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would insist on the diversity of authentic experiences with Africa," he said...
Granted, there will be bands of rebels who will insist on clinging to the antiquated H-word despite all arguments to the contrary. But, fear not. With a firm commitment to a re-naming propaganda campaign, even the staunchest old-schoolers will come around. Notice that, after just a few years, only a small pocket of "North House" resistance remains, thanks to the re-education efforts of the new Pforzheimer regime...
...makes a bad roommate, but a "bestest friend," as Sarah Ferguson called her ex-husband, is apparently different. Cash-strapped Fergie is moving in with her amiable Andrew. The tabs reported Fergie and her daughters staying in the servants' rooms at Andrew's Sunninghill Park residence, but her people insist they are in grander quarters. The free digs will save Fergie $9,800-a-month rent while she finds a permanent home. And visiting daddy, of course, will be a lot easier...
...Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building's rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller--is there any other kind nowadays?--that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland's purity. It will come as no surprise to them...
Although some students insist that e-mail will never be supplanted by video games as Harvard's number one procrastination technique, many of the same students are addicted to seemingly simplistic games like "Tetris" and "Jewelbox...