Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torpedo-boat attack on two Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. Regular bombings began last February; since then U.S. and South Vietnamese planes have flown more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking ("It's so damn ugly it's beautiful") F-4B Navy Phantom, at 1,700 m.p.h. the fastest machine...
Proust is slightly out of fashion now. Biographer Painter's purpose is to insist that his unfashionableness is our fault, not Proust...
...Rolls people insist that they know what their customers want. They did no formal market research, found out about owners'-and chauffeurs'-feelings through Rolls dealers. "After all," says Chief Designer Harry Grylls, who supervised the design revolution, "we know most of our customers by their Christian names...
...moderate MDC coalition will insist that to charter the FDP group would be to commit political suicide in Mississippi, where the bulk of the political power is white. The coalition will point out that voters think of the FDP as radical (if not communist), and there would be little hope of organizing an effective YD club around an FDP core...
...will insist, on the other hand, that whites who would not join the virtually all-Negro FDP group will not join the integrated MDC group either. And right now it is probably true that even the more moderate faction would fail to attract the kind of white support that provides eager campaign help...