Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist that that government turn its energy and resources toward securing a just peace. We demand an end to this arms race which leads us toward a world in which, whether in war or peace, none of us will want to live; we demand that steps be taken to reverse this process and to renew the long and nobler struggle--now almost forgotten--for peace and freedom...
Commenting on their action, the Faculty-Student Advisory Committee on Public Speakers stated "We are not concerned about whether our students should hear about controversial subjects from controversial speakers; we hope they will hear and insist upon hearing both sides, and the middle as well...
Though eager to cut their losses, the Dutch insist that they have a moral responsibility to prepare New Guinea's primitive Papuans for self-government. They have set up a network of village schools, entrusted social legislation to a year-old, elected Council (16 Papuan, 12 Dutch members), and given natives administrative responsibility for more than half the area they control. The country now has its own national anthem, My Country, My Papua, and a red-white-and-blue flag. At a cost of $1,500,000, Dutch officials have organized a West Papuan Volunteer Corps (motto: I PERSEVERE...
...turn last week, and NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff bristled from the start. He began by charging that, for all Newton Minow's protestations, what the FCC obviously sought was Government control of network programming. Nettled and irritated, a couple of commissioners broke in to insist that the FCC had never said any such thing. Later, at his press conference, President Kennedy himself reiterated that the FCC had no intention of "changing the basic relationship which already exists...
...Bankers insist that the national, all-purpose credit-card clubs are having even more serious trouble, involving losses from deadbeat customers and chiseling proprietors. Nowadays, when a customer flashes his credit card, many restaurants and hotels that subscribe to the plan bill him directly, to avoid the 5%-7% commission charged by the clubs. The clubs have recently been forced to hike their annual membership fees to $8 (from $5 and $6) in an effort to make money on customers who charge less than $200 a year...