Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During those years, Lyndon loved to insist that he did not want to be Presi dent of the U.S. Once, while he was Senate majority leader, he and Ike were conversing in the President's office...
History-minded visitors to the Philippines often feel they have traveled by Time Machine back to an earlier America. So many Filipinos tote pistols that nightclubs, restaurants, government buildings and even the Philippine Air Lines insist in true Western style that customers check their firearms at the entrance. Prosperous Filipino business men, like the U.S. robber barons of the 1890s, build ornate homes in Manila's luxurious suburb of Forbes Park, where special police with carbines guard the streets against tough intruders from the slums. Bandits roam the back country, and pirates aboard motor launches raid docks and fishing...
...liberals were distressed to begin with that the Administration so readily gave up the battle for tax reform in its eagerness for a tax cut, and Senator Paul Douglas complains of "huge truck-holes in the tax system." Many liberals insist that the tax cut alone will not give the economy the extra boost it needs to cut unemployment sufficiently. They contend that labor productivity has been growing so fast that the nation's productive capacity is greater than Heller's Council of Economic Advisers calculated when it settled on an $11 billion tax cut-and that such...
...argue that at this point in history it is essential to form an African and American Negro student association, with membership determined by a "dogma of anti-racist racism." You feel a duty to require the University to take a stand on this important issue, and finally you "insist that we have the right to be aided toward our worthy goals by our University...
...achieve your goal. That is a clear and honorable position which does you credit. We will try to make our position clear, also. We do not intend to coerce, and indeed we could not coerce, student organizations in the election of members. On the other hand we do insist upon keeping before all organizations in explicit form the principles of open membership which the College itself observes, and supports, and would like to see prevail...