Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorite quarrel among geologists is whether or not the continents are still drifting. One school holds that Greenland and Scotland are 60 feet farther apart every year, that the distance between Paris and Washington increases a foot a year. Others insist that it will take many more years of astronomical measurement and scientific study of latitude and longitude to prove any drift...
Tellers at the Cambridge Trust are waiting, in two-fisted silence, for the lads of '45 who have an ingeniously idealistic conception of the banking business and will insist that an overdrawn account is not really overdrawn, but just temporarily embarrassed...
...murdered, tortured, kidnapped, imprisoned. They claim he slaps Cabinet Ministers in the face, beats up priests, kicks irksome subjects in the crotch. (It is said that for tiresome gabbling he once booted even Crown Prince Mohammed Reza into a palace fountain.) Iran is ruled entirely by fear, they insist; bribery is still prevalent, taxation overpowering; Iran's 136-man National Assembly, the Majlis, and all Cabinets are solidly enstooged. By this time, they add, the One-Man New Deal has turned into a One-Man Corporative State, owning everything worth owning and, furthermore, smoking opium...
...flowers of civilization which have blossomed in the West since 1933. They recall that, unlike Kamâl Atatürk, he had no elite of European-educated intellectuals to help him.‡ "Reza Khan made Iran out of nothing," they say and, knowing Persia and Persians, they insist that force was the only way. As for opium, 60% of the population smokes it. Descended from generations of opium smokers, it is said they are largely immune to its effects...
...Herald noted that Nelson had "almost magically" escaped criticism. There was no magic in it: Nelson had done an enormous job well, held his tongue, kept his head-and above all had truly seen the size of the job ahead. He had been, with Leon Henderson, the first to insist that the defense program could not be superimposed on top of the normal U.S. economy; that there was only one choice between guns and butter...