Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Effort. Out of the caterpillar of war, through the cocoon of Versailles, was hatched that beautiful butterfly, the League of Nations. Ardent apologists for the League-which still exists in form and largely in exile-insist that its prime purpose was not to stop wars once they had reached or passed the boiling point, but rather to promote international cooperation. "A place for talk" is the way League-loving Sir John Fischer Williams describes...
Says Hoffman: to the extent that U.S. industry does not achieve this goal (which requires a 40% increase in gross output over 1940), the U.S. public will rightfully insist that the U.S. Government achieve it-"expansion is the one idea we have to sell America." He also says that "when you get a businessman in a tight enough corner, he reluctantly starts thinking his way out of it." Thus C.E.D. was set up with a Field Division to help each U.S. employer think about how to expand his own business...
Woman's Reason. The social agencies, like transportation agencies, do their best to discourage unnecessary travel. But they are well aware that any Army or Navy wife may insist on writing her own definition of "necessary," and there is no pat answer to the kind of frank explanation given by one eastern girl who had made the long haul out to California: "I don't know why I came out here. It was such a terrible trip. . . . But when I heard Harry was in San Francisco, I just went wild...
Explained Publisher Ethridge: ". . . The turn taken by the Orphan Annie strip was representative of the Chicago Tribune policy. . . . (We do) not mind presenting opinions contrary to our own, (but) we have to insist that opinion of whatever kind be duly labeled as such and not smuggled into comic strips in the guise of entertainment...
...some of the doctor's other whims: instead of waiting until their babies are ready to arrive, most mothers now call him in advance and submit to a full course of prenatal care (the doctor's fee, including delivery: $35, lately raised from $25). But they still insist on having their babies at home in billowy feather beds, where the doctor, swearing softly, makes sutures as best...