Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who run pro football are eternal optimists. They insist that on any given Sunday, any given team can beat any other team. Nobody really believes it - until it happens. Last week the Cleveland Browns shut out the mighty Baltimore Colts 27-0 to win the National Football League championship - thereby confounding the Colts, the experts, and practically everybody else. If it had been a horse race, the stewards would be asking for a saliva test. Not that the Eastern Champion Browns were bad. They had Jimmy Brown, who is merely the best running back in the history of football...
...lysergic acid diethylamide) has so far proved no cure for any disease. The overriding interest of both scientists and pseudo scientists in LSD (and, to a lesser extent, in the other hallucinogens) is in its effects on the mind. And these are so fantastic that most experimenters insist words are not the right medium for describing them, but they have devised no better tool for communication...
...suggestions that they are trying to help the Communists are indignantly rejected by the Buddhist leaders. On the contrary, they insist that they represent "the people," while the government does not, hence that they are the only power in South Viet Nam that can truly oppose the Communists. Thich Tri Quang, who is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader?Americans remember him as the monk who took refuge in the U.S. embassy during the weeks preceding Diem's overthrow?sounds as anti-Communist as any American could wish. Says he: "Like all educated Buddhists...
...recommended that Senate employees and Senators be required to file a statement of income in excess of their government salary. These proposals were strongly backed by the committee counsel McLendon who criticized the "cloak of immunity around the personal behavior of members." He implied that Senators self-righteously insist that their personal behavior be regulated not by law, but by conscience. McLendon's judgement proved correct. The relatively moderate report was defeated...
...G.O.P. "There's already enough negativism in the party," said Oregon's Mark Hatfield. "I don't think it's a problem of ours," said Massachusetts' Governor-elect John Volpe. Washington's promising young Governor-elect Daniel Evans warned against Republicans who "insist on tagging labels such as 'liberal,' 'moderate,' 'conservative,' and 'kook' on each party member," and who want to "purge those within the party who disagree...