Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exact population of China is unknown. In 1948, during the civil war, the Nationalist government estimated, on the basis of a partial census, that there were 460 million mainland Chinese. Today the Nationalists on Formosa insist that mainland population has dropped to 450 million. Nationalist Historian Hu Shih, under a complex and interpretive system, insists that there are only 300 million. In 1953 the Chinese Communists held a nationwide census and came up with a figure of 582.6 million, and now estimate a population of 670-680 million. The latest figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau are restricted...
...tragedy," but confessed himself puzzled that the name of Stalingrad had been changed, "because millions of people associate that name with the famous battle that was the turning point of World War II." Moscow, Togliatti added plaintively, "should take into account popular sentiment in capitalist countries and should not insist on what is not absolutely necessary...
...groups as Chicago's Jewish Information Society of America and the National Jewish Information Service, in Los Angeles. This soft-sell approach reflects the historic reluctance of Jews to seek converts: the traditional Jewish code enjoins rabbis to discourage prospective converts at least three times. But if applicants insist, the code provides a mechanism for conversion. Rabbi Ralph Simon, new president of the Jewish Information Society, is calling for more "aggressive presentation of Judaism, with conviction on the part of those who do this work that we possess unique truths, that can contribute to a peaceful and perfected world...
Saved a Billion. Dr. Kline was careful to insist that he does not say that drugs such as reserpine and chlorpromazine should be or can be the only treatment for mental ills or nervous disorders. But the opposition, he asserted, says that it has the only true gospel in psychotherapy, or talking-it-out methods. He quoted Dr. H. Angus Bowes: "To doubt the value of psychotherapy is regarded by many as slightly blasphemous, as though questioning the efficacy of prayer. But the physician who uses psychotherapy without medicine is as unhappy as his patients...
Moscoso is the first to understand that what worked in Puerto Rico, with its special commonwealth ties to the U.S., is not necessarily the solution for the rest of Latin America. But he does insist that a common foundation exists, and that is "a sense of purpose and an understanding of the sacrifices needed.'' From Puerto Rico's experience, he spells out three prerequisites for development...