Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a peremptory cable from the master of a U.S. freighter: "Was my entry Shanghai legal or illegal: if illegal, I request notice. If legal, insist upon suitable protection." The freighter Sir John Franklin was the second to be fired on in the past two weeks, while trying to run the Nationalist blockade into Chinese Communist ports...
...seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture of Grand Coulee dam in "Fortune"--"Grand Coulee: Its power is majestic, symbolic, and subsidized...
...treatment for anxiety, say Ruesch and Prestwood, can be found in the nursery. "There is a natural impulse for the normal mother to alleviate the anxiety of the child by picking it up," a method which usually works. Trie doctors do not advocate rocking or dandling grownups, but they insist that an adult's need to share his anxieties, preferably with a loved one, is as great as an infant's. "The successful management of anxiety generated in daily life seems possible only through the process of sharing and communication," the researchers conclude. "[This] is the process which...
...debates on the Balkans have become as formalized as a ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey...
...Codes. The more progressive school boards that do look for new designs are often hampered by outmoded building codes. Some states still insist that windows be placed only on one wall. Regulations for ceiling heights, says the FORUM, are often "predicated on ventilating theories proved erroneous...