Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When reporting on Unitarians, you must remember that the principle of the free mind in religion is paramount to all particular beliefs and dogmas. . . . We are not unanimous, for we insist on thinking for ourselves, without the aid or hindrance of revealed "truth" or official church pronouncements. Our motto can be well stated: "Here not all think alike, but all alike think...
...bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...
...dentists gave three silent cheers last week for Dr. Walter C. McBride, an intrepid fellow. Dr. McBride, director of children's dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...
...souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic...
...Defense. Farrell enthusiasts, on the contrary, will stoutly insist that out of Farrell's graceless prose emerges a true and important period picture. The subject: Manhattan of the flamboyant '20s-which the late Scott Fitzgerald saw from the peak of success, and which Chicago-born James T. Farrell sees from the bottom of the barrel...