Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have insisted that I give up the Superintendency of St. Monica's Hospital, the Presidency of its Board of Directors, and finally that I prepare to leave Phoenix. This, you insist, I must do if I am to remain in good standing as a Priest of the Catholic Church and a member of the Franciscan Order. As a reason for your demand you have contended that my activities are too material in nature and do not conform to the spiritual duties of the priesthood...
...Sunday Pictorial suggested Franklin Delano as a possibility. Court gossips, who knew Elizabeth's and Philip's tastes, were betting on Louis or Nicholas (both Mountbatten names); there were sure to be traditionalists in on the debate who would insist on the usual David, George, Andrew, and Patrick* for the four corners of the United Kingdom. All of these might be included, but the name that he would bear if he became king would be decided by his grandfather, the present king. At any rate, Elizabeth proclaimed to friends, whether she won out on the name...
...directives that the French in North Africa were to be treated as neutrals, not enemies, but Robert Murphy's intelligence for the U.S. State Department on General Henri Giraud proved faulty. A great deal of effort went into prying Giraud out of Vichy territory, only to have him insist on having Ike's job or none at all. Finally Giraud changed his mind...
This sort of stuff is a tradition at Harvard-Yale football games that not even prohibition could spoil. Although the WTCU will tell you that nobody could get hold of liquor in those days, old alumni insist that Stadium swizzhing never reached its peak until the 1920's. The CRIMSON of 1927 reported that "today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking indoors...
Says Jerry: "Dad doesn't insist we all must be world beaters. The only thing he lays on the line without any ifs is we've got to play hard. And he lets us know that if our marks fall we're out of football. None of us could stand that...