Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, South Korean troops show determination to defend their country. Americans here (including some with long experience in China) insist that the Koreans are a much better bet politically and militarily than the Chinese were...
...every act. He takes its description of his limited powers so literally that the press now criticizes him, savagely on occasion, for his "government by inertia." It is a rare occasion when he gets off a message to Congress, as he did three weeks ago, "taking the liberty to insist" that it get along with its work...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
When MacArthur is criticized for SCAP's failure to improve Japan's tragic economic plight, the general replies that he was rigidly bound by the directive, which expressed the will of the people of the U.S. Critics of SCAP, looking at Japan's slow recovery, insist the reply is only partially valid. MacArthur, they argue, had enough stature to go to bat in Washington against any directive he considered wrong...