Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary finale for all Bob Hope pictures, and dragging out a well-known Paramount extra to give a little performance in pantomime...
...participate more whole-heartedly in a so-called Anglo-American bloc, and by her realization that the maintenance of the British position around the world is now too expensive for an impoverished empire to carry alone. Thus if our interests are identical with Britain's, as many insist they are, then our accession to her request is completely logical...
Certainly no one will insist that the hastily constructed developments and the quarters in the Hotel Brunswick are the most palatial of residences, and no one will deny that Harvardevens Village is pretty far away, but at least there is the satisfaction that no one is going homeless--in fact, at this date the Housing Office has more vacancies than it has applications. Anyone who has noticed the Quonset huts and trailer camps which seem to cluster about most colleges this year can heave a thankful sigh of relief...
...Insist on the rights of small nations to be heard in the Assembly...
...paid. The Russians are expected to demand an immediate award of ten billion dollars worth of German goods in accordance with their claim that Britain and the United States have already seized German assets to the sum of several billion dollars. Mr. Molotov can also be expected to insist upon a speeding up of industrial removals within the three western zones of occupied Germany...