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Word: insistences (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Counsel-are also vacant. Unless Johnson appoints some money men soon, the Treasury may be virtually empty at the top during a serious period for the dollar. There is the usual flock of other nominees-all of whom privately say, "Not me!" And some White House men insist that the President has not yet given up completely on Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Turndown | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Singer argued that a defendant can act in his best interests, but Warren ruled that "the ability to waive a constitutional right does not ordinarily carry with it the right to insist upon the opposite of that right." When the prosecutor insisted on jury trial, Singer wound up with "the very thing that the Constitution guarantees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Compulsory Jury Trial | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...insist on being what Carlyle called the only "clothed animal," but defining "public decency" is among the law's most hopeless chores. Thus in Caracas last summer, a clever cop arrested a topless-bathing-suit wearer simply for not carrying identification papers. But in Cannes, another cop could think of no such evasive tactic when he spotted Claudine Durand, 21, on the beach. Barebreasted, the pretty Parisian gym teacher was playing pingpong before fascinated spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Topless Triumph | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Purists and prudes insist the last labial touch should be a chaste left-right-left to the cheek. But last week, as Munich's two-month pre-Lenten fling of Fasching came to a final, beery crescendo, the partners were directly on target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Live & Let Live, Kiss & Letkiss | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Both the French and Germans contend that their schemes eliminate color distortions, which they claim may turn actors roast-beef red or grass overly emerald green when the U.S. system is used-over long-distance lines. U.S. technicians insist that such problems have long since been overcome, that the rival plans are too costly and that the French system has many other bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Coming of Color | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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