Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remark, "Farming has little appeal for young men nowadays," made my blood boil. What's wrong with farming? Where else can you be your own boss without punching a time clock? And why do people insist on cracking those corn-fed jokes about the "dumb" farmer and his wife...
Finally, under continuing pressure from the University and the ever-present fear that Harvard might actually refuse to operate the accelerator, top officials of the AEC gave approval in February to some liberalization of the original restrictions. But the AEC continues to insist on at least some controls. It fears, in large part, the wrath of economy-happy Congressional investigating committees which might slash the AEC budget because Communists are running around unsupervised at the Cambridge accelerator...
...competitors insist that it is not even a part of Japan's auto industry, and one Japanese automaker sneers that it is "in the toy business." Some toy. Hiroshima's thriving Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. outproduced all other Japanese automakers last year and had the industry's fattest profit margin on sales of $231,500,000. This month it turned out its millionth vehicle...
...different groups in the country. He would have to speak of the feelings among Negroes, among Southern white people, among Northern white people. The talk would have to be unusually skillful, attempting to bring each group to a closer understanding with the others. But finally it would have to insist before all groups that integration is the law of the land...
Those who fear governmental participation in the economy insist that maintaining a margin of unemployed fellow-citizens is "the price we have to pay for prosperity." This readiness to degrade a minority for the benefit of a prosperous majority implies moral acceptance of the breadline as a way of life (for others). To advocate a margin of unemployment as if it were static or intermittently fluctuating is to ignore the dynamics of technological unemployment in America. Moreover, it is not only the jobless who suffer. People in mills and factories and offices throughout the country today live in fear that...