Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should not insist on a return to the situation which existed previously, since this bore within it the seeds of regional war and encouragement for the Russians...
This evidence Attorney Weyer never presented in court. He feared that 1) juries do not take sympathetically to psychiatric evidence; 2) such evidence would necessitate Violet's taking the stand, where she would only insist again that she was guilty; and 3) he still did not know enough to make sense out of the puzzling evidence at the murder scene. And so the jury brought in a verdict of guilty and the judge sentenced Violet to prison for 20 years...
...British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...India's youth carry on so? Some officials insist that they are victims of Communist agitation. Anthropologists at Calcutta University have pointed out that the real cause is poverty: one in three students in Bengal comes from a family with an income of only $6 a month...
...headache over the Middle East. In Texas a major argument raged between independent oilmen and the big companies over how to supply Europe with oil to tide it over until supplies start flowing freely again from Arab fields. While major companies want to boost U.S. production, the independents insist that the shortage should be filled from existing U.S. supplies above ground, argue that production increases will only result in bigger domestic surpluses once the immediate Suez crisis is past. As of last week, at least, the independents were winning. The Texas Railroad Commission, which controls some...