Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having three anti-reform votes, received an unexpected CCA ballot. Mickey (the dude) Sullivan was last to vote and cast a ballot for John D, Lynch, one of his bitter political enemies. There was no Mayor elected that day. As long as the opposing factions in the reform camp insist on feuding, these men will be able to extend the filibuster indefinitely...
...suggested that peace might now be preserved by avoiding a "policy of indefinite retreat before Russian power." "Otherwise," he wrote in The Steep Places (Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of a hostile system because we insist that it is not so bad. Then when it is on top of us, we conclude that it is very bad indeed and decide to resist. But. . . aggression has attained a momentum too great to stop...
...history scholar for Friday afternoon. When I asked him point-blank, "out of curiosity," just how many boys he is now helping through Harvard, Cramer replied that he "would rather not say." But he admitted that he was a hard taskmaster: "If I were working for someone, I'd insist on a full hour for lunch. But I exploit myself...
While the libraries will only lend books out overnight this year, librarians will not strictly insist on the 10 o'clock in the evening to 9 in the morning deadline...
...association endorsed aid to Europe, but with the prohibitive condition that the U.S. insist that foreign nations, in effect, adopt an uncontrolled, free-enterprise system before they...