Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present draft policy suggests, but does not insist, that boards exempt from service men in the top half of their class
...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
...Russians insist that they sent no arms to their North Korean friends after the Red Army pulled out of Korea in 1948. Last week, General Douglas MacArthur formally reported to the U.N. Security Council that ten different types of Soviet war materiel, plainly stamped 1949 or 1950, have been seized by U.N. troops in Korea...
...past four months, two horses have stood out among the three-year-olds of 1950. Many horsemen insist that the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner, Middleground, rates the edge. But Christopher Chenery's strapping Preakness winner, Hill Prince, probably has as many admirers...
Some conservative meteorologists are still arguing with Langmuir & Co. Their position is that all weather effects are produced by the "synoptic situation," the complicated interaction of air masses of varying temperatures, pressure and wind velocity. All "artificial" rain, they insist, would have fallen anyhow, without man's help. The July 1949 rainfall in New Mexico, for instance, they attribute to a front moving in from the Gulf of Mexico...