Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace proposal was a quickly juggled anagram of all the old ones. The Russians continue to insist on a toothless international inspection program-i.e., Russia wants to do its own inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...
...Harvard Debate Council can not possibly adapt itself wholly to this system, as many colleges insist on debating the same subject in the same way throughout the year. But that is no reason to ignore the problem of audience-appeal altogether. Debating as an activity deserves more interest than it currently receives; but unless the Debate Council makes some effort to appeal to its audience, debating here will continue to be ignored...
...contracts, Guatemala will insist that the company: 1) pay income taxes equal to those paid by corporations (up to 43%); 2) turn over to the government the country's major ports, which Unifruit built and operates; 3) cut freight rates on the rail network it controls and on the ships of the "Great White Fleet"; and 4) pay higher prices for bananas it buys from independent Guatemalan producers...
...saloon another,'" he said. "But I also know that the machine is against the law as it stands on the books; and I know that the citizen who violates the law in his country club or fraternal lodge is in no position to, and does not in fact, insist that his elected officers enforce the law in the corner saloon . . . Many of our most reputable and influential citizens sterilize their power and influence to demand and get faithful performance by their local officials. They have tied their own hands and stopped their own mouths...
Some of his friends insist that he has written his spiritual autobiography into his books. When they try to describe him, they usually fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with...