Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sincerity ... a Church which is the conscience of Society . . . which . . . will condemn selfish, nationalistic, imperialistic, compromising social action . . . [and will] insist upon a Society which will recognize, as Jesus does, that man is more than a producer and consumer of goods, more than a breeder of wage-slaves and cannon fodder...
...been doomed by the development of power machinery, the application of the basic principles of the industrial revolution to crop-growing and animal husbandry. Waring & Teller think this analysis is pure hogwash - the sort of thing that city fellers like Steinbeck and McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single...
...public C.I.O.'s policy makers carefully avoided any commitments on a Fourth Term for Franklin Roosevelt. President Philip Murray blamed the President and Congress equally for the raw deal that labor leaders insist that labor has been getting, added bluntly: "I don't like Washington as it is today." Agile Sidney Hillman, chairman of the new committee for political action, hedged with a prudent : "We will make our commitment...
...headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung up in the wake...
...even know the man." Every day he rose at 8, draped a bathrobe over his pajamas and watched his breakfast roll in-grapefruit, cereal, soft-boiled egg, toast, coffee. There were few things an old man could enjoy, but he damn well did like and insist on grapefruit, and for lunch a chop and spinach. He liked spinach. No cigars. Gave up cigars 35 years ago on the advice of his doctor. A touch of whiskey now and then...