Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Timbuktu, French West Africa, I snapped my native cook perusing TIME (see cut). Part of his ancestry, and the mat on which he sits, are Tuareg; the rest is Songhoi Negro. He awaited the arrival of two-month-old TIME with as much fervor as we and would insist on having all of the pictures explained...
...Themes. Each morning, five mornings a week, generations of Yale men have dropped their themes in a box outside Professor Berdan's foul-smelling office. The door is always open and Professor Berdan, smoking an overpowering Latakia tobacco in a meerschaum pipe loves to invite his students in, insist that they smoke a strong Cuban cigaret, talk to them for hours on end. He makes it a point to read every theme (200 a week) himself. In class he rips the themes to pieces, likes to make his students angry so that they will fight back. Once he asked...
...waiters insist the only satisfactory method of dishing out salad is by hand, and that all guests are given the same food as the students, although they "may, in certain cases, receive better service...
...looked even blacker. Nazi supply officers drove inconspicuously into the markets daily, loaded their trucks with staples in return for handfuls of worthless occupation marks. These were issued to soldiers and Nazi civil officers. Since the Germans controlled the gasoline supply, they could go the rounds of farms and "insist" on the farmers selling their products...
When the British brought their fierce, bearded Sikh troops into the African campaign they found themselves up against a tough problem. Army regulations demand that every British infantryman be issued a steel helmet. But the Sikhs insist on wearing turbans, over which no steel helmet can fit. Finally, the Sikhs worked out an agreement with their British officers, accepted the helmets. Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack...