Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bishops should also "scrupulously take precautions and firmly insist that, in the history of the Reformation, the faults and foibles of Catholics be not overemphasized while the defects of the reformers are dissimulated . . . Nothing embraced in Catholic truth concerning the nature and means of justification . . . the Roman pontiff's primacy of jurisdiction, and the fact that real reunion can only be effected by the dissidents' return to the one true church, may be passed over in silence or told ambiguously...
...allow a fair number of students to hear these concerts is the Music department. This department should use its influence to have Symphony Hall request its Cambridge customers to subscribe to a regular Boston series--it should make little difference to most of them. Then, the department should insist on a redistribution of the tickets at the disposal of the University so that a reasonable number of students can get into concerts which were partially designed for their enjoyment and education...
...Washington apartments, of the Hisses' habits and hobbies. Alger Hiss was an amateur ornithologist, Chambers said, and once had told Chambers how he had seen a prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac. In another session with Hiss the com mittee again pressed him. Did he still insist that he did not know Chambers? Would he recognize a man who once spent a week in his house? Hiss at length said that he might have known Chambers after all, but as a free-lance writer-he pulled a notation from his pocket-named "George Crosley." Back...
...cannot possibly sustain it for such length. In the second place, it contains a series of lush scenes, depicting people fondling jewels and purchasing bolts of cloth, which have only the remotest connection with the plot and are in themselves boring and trite. In the third place, the characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically...
...Yalemen were not insisting on the double standard for their women: only 8% said they would insist on virginity in their brides. They were apt to be self-critical: one out of three insisted that there was far too much drinking at Yale on weekends...