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Word: insistence (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davis, who was elected to honorary membership in the chapter earlier in the morning, added that "there is still enough vitality in Western Civilization to save us unless we insist on disemboweling our- selves...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Elmer Davis Details Threats To Survival of Civilization | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

...British insist that they scrupulously adhere to the U.N. embargo on shipments of war materials, but their assurances leave scope for convenient "exceptions." Whitehall's definition of the term non-strategic is more elastic than the State Department's. Example: Britain regards railroad equipment as non-strategic; the U.S. officially bans everything, so far as its own traders are concerned, and has persuaded its European partners to ban 260 items as strategic.* Most dismaying of all in Britain's case, the Foreign Office admitted that until very recently it had turned a blind eye towards British flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Trade with the Communists | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Catholicism was the state religion under the kings, but few in the royal house were steady communicants. Italians recall that the late Queen Elena enjoyed telling ribald stories about priests, and some even insist that Victor Emmanuel III, on one of the infrequent occasions when he attended Mass, got mixed up at the holy water font and seemed to think he must wash his hands there. To be a Communist is, by decree of the Vatican, a mortal sin, but in some Italian towns the best place to find the leading Communists together is at Sunday Mass. And Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man from the Mountains | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...success of the whole plan, he believed, would depend on three rules: 1) buy abroad only what can not be obtained in the U.S.; 2) buy only in areas where the cloth has been made by craftsmen for years (i.e., broadcloth in Normandy, worsteds in northern France); 3) insist that mills pay at least 75? an hour to their employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Schuman Plan | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...rule"--viz., that only married men taught the all-girl sections at Radcliffe. I was married in the summer of 1946, and was assigned my first Gov. 1 section at Radcliffe in the fall. This is not to suggest I wouldn't have enjoyed being "the exception", but to insist for the record that the pleasure was never mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFEANA CORRECTED | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

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