Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persons next to you insist upon talking to you during breakfast-Be kindly toward them. It may be they think you have no inner resources on which to rely, and so they chatter to put you at ease...
...which gave her its 1944 award for fabric design) clamoring for all she could send, the business expanded so rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once failed at selling ties himself...
...popular vote, the Communists had again become France's largest party. As party and interparty caucuses brought political heads together this week, the question was whether the Reds would enter a coalition government with a non-Communist Premier, as they had done before, or whether they would insist on naming a Communist Premier of their own. Their candidate for Premier would probably be burly, shrewd Maurice Thorez (TIME, June 3). If Thorez gets the job, he will be the first Communist Premier ever to take office in western Europe. The anti-Communist sentiment of other parties is so strong...
...getting his wage increase the easier way-in reduction of hours-Lewis would be sidestepping the issue of an escalator clause which many an industry will insist upon in contracts for cost-of-living increases. If 1947 should bring a reduction in living costs, many a labor leader would be reminded that escalators can run down as well as up; industry could insist on cutting wages in relation to reduced prices. But John L. would not be caught in any such reversal. His miners' hourly rate would not be tied to living costs...
...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...