Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen," said one Smollett character, "who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected -with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counselors, and clergy...
...other candidates. Johns Hopkins was getting a man who once advised universities to hold firm against those who thought they "should assume the functions of a trade school or provide entertainment for the masses," and against parents who, having failed to bring their children up properly, "insist that the university become a school for manners or an elite reformatory...
What it boiled down to was this: a weak and divided Western Europe must insist on a helpless Germany, and until Gerrnany recovers Western Europe cannot recover. A strong Western Europe can face (and include) a revived Germany. The first alternative means a Russian victory in the next phase of East-West relations; the second means a Western victory...
...conference even had a code name -"Metric." Said a disappointed French delegate after the conference: "We regarded it as a hopeful sign that the British, who usually insist on measuring things with their feet, invented this code name 'Metric'; we thought they were coming over to continental ideas. We came here with the idea de bousculer les Anglais. We should know by now you can't light fires under the British...
...Czech officials insist there will not be a war. So do the Soviets, and I think they will be very careful to avoid the responsibility for war . . . There does, however, seem to be some Czech urgency in preparing for a possible conflict. . . Czech heavy industry is now working mostly for the Russians, producing not finished articles but certain parts that will fit into armament...