Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of the Middle East fell darkly over the brand-new $12,250,000 U.N. General Assembly Building in New York as representatives of 60 nations filed in for their seventh session. The African-Asian countries were prepared to insist that the Tunisian nationalists be heard. The French felt that they were being put on trial before the world largely by a collection of backward, undemocratic states whose plumbing, politics and sense of public order are far worse than those of Morocco or Tunisia. The U.S., divided between its desire to please an ally and its sentimental aversion...
Maugham tells of a young Englishman, smashed up for life in a plane accident, whose devoted wife and brother have fallen passionately in love and are having an affair. The hopeless cripple providentially dies-only for the nurse suddenly to insist that he was murdered. The rest of the play, while tracking down the not very elusive killer, seeks to justify both the adultery and (as it happens) the mercy killing...
...political elixer for mid-western candidate, the three professors gambled. They reasoned that McCarthy and Jenner have brushed so many similar appeals with pink paint that Wisconsin and Indiana voters would not be too upset over another. More important, campaign managers of both Thomas Fairchild and Henry Schricker insist that their candidates need money for advertisements, posters, radio and television time to win their elections. They add that their opponents are themselves getting out-of-state money...
...sexes are equal. This morning, women were out chipping the ice off the streets just like the men"). Now, says I.P.I., no one will talk to correspondents who is not "officially authorized" to do so. Furthermore, free-world correspondents may not argue with the censors because the Russians blandly insist that there are no censors. Correspondents in Russia never see what changes are made in their cables before they are sent; the cables are either killed or sent as censored without the newsmen knowing how the meaning has been changed by cuts. Even mailed stories are censored, and then retyped...
...joined him in laughing at his replies (sample: "Is it true that you'll eat anything, coach?" "I'll eat anything that don't eat me first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers and statesmen rather than barefoot mountain boys...