Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany or two (and, consequently, one Europe or two, one world or two). So far, an integrated approach to the peace is blocked by Russia's policy of prolonging the unsettled conditions in which Communism might flourish. The only course open to the U.S. and Britain was to insist that the 17 smaller nations be called to Paris where, beginning July 29, they will work on the edges of the puzzle-Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary. "It is a fallacy," said Australia's Dr. Herbert V. Evatt last week, "to suppose that all knowledge and all wisdom...
Almost every night some drunken American would insist that the band play the Nazis' Horst Wessel Lied. Reluctantly the musicians complied, hurrying the beat to get it over with, while the German customers stared morosely into their beers...
...Tories insist that it cannot, citing as symptoms of authoritarianism Morrison's bosslike domination of Labor Party backbenchers and recent threatening remarks of several Cabinet Ministers toward political opponents. The sharpest reaction was the cry of "Censorship!" that went up last week after Labor demands that the Tory press be investigated...
...World War I Britain sought support from both Jews and Arabs. To the Jews the famous Balfour Declaration promised "a national home" in Palestine, which Zionists insist means a Jewish State. Arabs were promised self-rule in the Middle East, which the Arabs insist must include Palestine (where there are now a million Arabs, 550,000 Jews). Today stronger Arab nationalism and a sharply intensified Zionism can find no common ground...
...Major came back and with him was a stubby little man in dusty trousers and a tieless blue shirt, whom the others called "The Chief." His name, as I later found out, was Morozov-a common Russian name. When his questions got completely political, I told him: "I must insist that you arrest me, and then after seeing the American consul, I will perhaps answer such questions, not now. Furthermore, if I am detained long, it might look to some as though the authorities in Poznan were afraid to allow foreign correspondents to watch the referendum...