Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither the dangerous rabble-rouser nor neo-nationalist he seems, but a savior of Germany. They excuse his violent speeches. Often, they say, he will descend from a rostrum shaking his head and murmuring, "Well, I believe that I was again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher himself professes to be hurt that the West misunderstands him so. Can't they see that his party is pure, and that the big Ruhr industrialists who once helped Hitler are the men behind Adenauer...
...drinks, because of stiff federal taxes on spirits, boosted last year from $9 a gal. to $10.50. At retail the price is still higher because venders add their normal markup (average 22%) to the tax itself* While the Big Four distillers (Schenley, National, Seagram's and Hiram Walker) insist that they will maintain prices, smaller distillers have already begun to cut prices of straight whiskies. Sample: United Distillers has slashed its J. W. Dant bottled-in-bond sour-mash bourbon by 90? a fifth...
...with th Vatican, and 2) a Methodist merger wit the Protestant Episcopal Church. Presider Truman, said the bishop, "set back th movement of religious cooperation 75 year by his injection of the Vatican issue." A for the Episcopalians, there is no chance of a merger so long as they insist that Methcdist ministers must be first re-ordaine by Episcopal bishops. Said Methodist Coi son: "If the Episcopalians want union, a they need to do is declare John Wesley de facto bishop...
...council decides to fire Pascal unless the whole senior class passes the government examination for a graduation certificate. As an added obstacle, they insist that Albert, a boy whom they consider the village loafer, also pass. Actually, association with Pascal has made a new boy of Albert, and he passes with the rest after making a Tom Paine-type speech eulogizing Pascal and freedom...
...Indo-China, Miss Mintz said we are not completely up against a wall. We have to back neither the Communist Ho Chih-Mihn nor the imperialistic French and Bao-Dai. We can get tough with France, insist it set up a real government with popular support, not a puppet one universally disliked, staff the army with indo-Chinese, not Frenchmen, and let the country develop along national lines...