Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs insist on ignoring the cry from European refugee Jews for admission to the Holy Land. Faris el Khoury brought in some dubious history to deny their connection with Palestine. "Who are the Jews of eastern Europe?" he asked. "They are Mongols who were near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that...
...Ardeatine Caves (among the victims were women, schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...
...students insist that Eugene DuBois is as great a teacher as he is a physiologist. His educational secret, they say, is the old but sound one: he works with his students instead of over them...
...haunted valley. To be caught there after dark, natives say, means almost certain death. If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
...Death of a Friend," by Judith Nelson, was chosen by Professors Matthiessen and Levin to be Radcliffe's entry in the Eastern College Poetry contest. It is a mature piece of expressive writing, and consequently a rare and welcome specimen to see in what the editors of Radditudes insist is "not just a girl's college magazine." The richness of texture and the author's mastery of rhythm help to make the poem easily the best thing of its kind that has yet appeared in Radditudes...