Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn the false sentimentalism which surrounds Zionism to a practical sentimentalism and make homes for the refugee Jews in our own communities rather than insist that the Arabs of Palestine give their country entirely over to a people who once happened to rule it for a few centuries...
...sake of Europe brought out 30,000 volunteers in a month. In France, an American occupation soldier wrote to the editor of Stars & Stripes: "I am getting too damned fat. . . . With a lot of women, children, grown men, etc., in Europe on the verge of starvation, why do they insist on fattening us up like pigs? Please bring more for folks over here who need it and less...
...result has been that the union has had membership and financial security, but the company has had no compensating security. . . . Peaceful relations have not materialized. The experiment has been an unhappy one. . . . We must insist upon guarantees by the union against work stoppages and losses in productivity...
Incorrigible cinemaddicts may insist on regarding Charles Boyer as a romantic figure-even in his shabby overcoat and battered hat. But the hero of Confidential Agent is far from a stock heroic figure. He is middleaged, greying, easily winded and persistent rather than brave. A Spanish Loyalist soldier whose wife and child have been killed, he is sent on a confidential mission to England in 1937 to keep a shipment of coal out of the Nationalists' hands. He is beaten up, shot at and framed for murder. He is chased up dusty stairways and down drab, foggy alleys...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...