Word: insister
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...leave, they promise to have me over to one of their many parties, which are star-studded but, they insist, won't make me feel uncomfortable. Even their 1,100-person wedding, they tell me, wasn't a big scene. "It was a very down-to-earth affair," Gest says. "That's the way we've always done things. You make everyone - whether you're the cleaning person or a star - feel as one. You leave your ego at the door...
...floor show based on Nordic mythology. Owner Richard Edward Schmidthuber, who got the idea after people cheered the Viking costume he wore to a football game, says he intentionally made the place "a little different" to distinguish it from the thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal with a Green Bay Packers emblem...
...better than, humans," says Hetherington. There's no denying that for utter precision and consistency, nothing beats a 125-ton computer-driven swaging machine hammering down on a barrel 1,600 times a minute. What is unknown is whether knowledgeable collectors--seeking uniqueness, not consistency--will one day insist on "pre-machine" guns...
PRESIDENTIAL PALACES Many of these compounds were off limits during the past inspection cycle. This time U.N. teams will insist on closely examining the dozens of sprawling complexes and the vast underground networks that Saddam calls home...
...with an American thing, and Madeleine has come to do research, to dig the dirt and possibly bury her old rival in it. At first the two have nothing in common but the familiar British condescension toward Americans. ( "Because they're richer than everybody else, so they have to insist their dramas are more significant," Frances snipes. "At one the most powerful people on earth and now, it appears, the most fearful.") But soon they get to the business at hand: hurting each other, probing with stiletto mots and cleaver accusations...