Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus: "Does ever any man cry stinking fish to be sold?" "Stinking fish" is a phrase much heard in Britain these days. Those to whom Britain's present or future looks dark are charged with "crying stinking fish." Optimists and apologists for Britain's troubles bravely insist: "I'm not going to cry stinking fish." The sense of it: don't sell Britain short...
...know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would be nothing but a sad automaton, but I've never met one. Most of us don't know very much, but we keep on trying because the children insist...
...slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free enterprise under any conditions whatever, he has ventured to insist, as bitterly as he knows how, that there are considerable elements of criminality implicit in both...
...responded by electing him chairman of the President's Advisory Council of Governors. In 1939 he moved to the capital to manage Manuel Avila Camacho's presidential campaign against Juan Almazan. Mexicans recall the ruthless drive with which he carried through the election; to this day many insist that Almazan really won and was counted out by the Aléman organization...
...alleys. Great Britain proposed this committee-constituting sessions so that the UN regular assembly in September might receive its own report on Palestine, emphasizing, no doubt, the difficulties facing the mandatory power to date. And in a desperate play to break the issue wide open, Arab League delegates will insist that today's meeting immediately cut short British control and declare Palestine independent. But this is only one of several obscuring political issues; the UN's true task is to find quick relief for more than 100,000 Jewish DPs still in Europe, two years after...