Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero Paul Lennox is strong on good works and good looks, A dynamic young fellow, he is modern enough to insist that a gymnasium and round-table marriage counseling are necessary supplements to his central message of God's grace. Yet Paul is beset by a corroding sense of failure. He feuds with an important parishioner, can't wholeheartedly accept the girl he loves, fails miserably as an example to his heavy-drinking young half brother. It takes most of the book and a crippling attack of polio to make Paul understand his failure in life...
...believe that it is sound policy to insist upon the rights of the public, in one way or another, to be informed of the acts of private institutions." The men explained that "it is from public authority that Harvard derives its charter and its freedom from taxation...
...economist called upon the government to beat the strike at any cost and then insist that those men who instituted the "sick" dodge be disciplined. He proposed that an outside committee he formed to determine liability of individuals in disputed cases involving discipline...
...boss's wife had the solution for the office Christmas party [TIME, Dec. 25] when "in came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile." There isn't a single moral problem that the office party at Yuletide raises that won't be solved if the wives insist upon inviting themselves . . . At least this is the Victorian suggestion I am submitting to my Sunday flock of a thousand...
...face the fact that the allied armies which are to be raised under the Brussels agreement may be overpowered and defeated. We may be driven into the sea. Our losses may be heavy. No one can take this possibility lightly . . . But what Senator Taft and Mr. Hoover seem to insist upon is that we should not use land troops on the Continent unless we are certain to win ... If we only try to resist the Communists when it is a sure thing that we will win, the Communists will conquer the world...