Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing, Calamai and his third officer walked to the starboard wing of the bridge. "Why don't we hear him?" asked the third...
...first summons for a new drive toward European unity came from West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, out of a mixture of irritation and puzzlement at the so-called "Radford plan" for emphasizing nuclear strength over manpower, began to insist that Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into...
Lines of Battle. As the third mate's story went into its third week, and fresh relays of lawyers resumed the cross-questioning, the principal issues between Stockholm and Andrea Doria began to come clear. The Swedes insist that the night was clear; the Italians hold that it was "dark and foggy," hence, the captain should have been on the bridge, Stockholm should have cut her speed, posted extra watches and sounded fog warnings. The Swedes insist that the ships were steaming port-to-port, with ample room to pass; the Italians counter flatly that they were starboard...
...Indian cemetery established in the 18403 when the Wyandottes moved to Kansas from Ohio and Michigan, the land was part of the property ceded to the Federal Government in 1855 in exchange for lands in Oklahoma. However, the Wyandottes insist they never did convey title to the cemetery to anybody. For more than 60 years they have been seeking to regain possession, but each attempt was blocked by Kansas' Representatives in Washington. Finally, this year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department...
Characteristically, Siles speaks of his problems as "four big battles"-against inflation, for increased production, against illiteracy, for national unity. He vows to undertake the unpopular measures that he considers necessary: freeze wages, cut out government subsidies, "insist on labor discipline" and "run the mines like a private business...