Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What could be more sensible than that? Every businessman wants to pay off his debts with an inflated dollar when business is good, so why shouldn't the Government? And yet the Republicans insist on wasting their time making derogatory remarks about a very sensible suggestion simply because it comes from a Democrat...
...been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently buoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may, well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick...
...good fun and the hotels are wonderful - especially the Gran in Managua, where everybody sits around the great open lobby with the swimming pool in the middle, spying on one another. Some day I will discover why all the spies in Central America insist that they are in the lumber business...
...Navy radar men thought the McCormick explanation "possible but extremely unlikely." One expert went so far as to insist: "a close-in target is always seen, unless the radar is out of order...
Over the past few months, Stassen has listened to such political shop talk coolly and appraisingly, like a man watching the gunnery calculations before a salvo is fired. His backers insist that G.O.P. bigwigs, camped in Washington, are still underestimating the effectiveness of their candidate's missionary work within the party. He has done his persuasive best to help the campaigns of young G.O.P. candidates. In his months of travel, Stassen has talked to a score of state chairmen and other Republican local officials. When he met men who were backing either Taft or Dewey he did not argue...