Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like parents who are objective about their children . . . Some parents consistently underrate their children, not realizing that their progeny may surpass them. Others . . . insist that their children must plan to go to a certain 'big-name' college, either because the parents attended there, or because they wish that they had . . . We like parents who let their children be themselves...
Clearly the military value of Formosa does not warrant the risk involved which would be at least fodder for Soviet propagandists who insist the U.S. is an imperialist aggressor; at the worst, the risk...
...taxes, he was apt to get a flat turndown. The President was about ready to give in to congressional appeals for a reduction of wartime excise taxes, would probably agree to removal of federal taxes on such items as transportation, fur coats and jewelry.* But in return he would insist that Congress make up the loss by raising taxes elsewhere-say on corporations, which, as every Congressman knows, have no vote...
...turn of the century, men were beginning to ask Gompers what his goal was. Where would he stop? Gompers had a prophetic answer which he was soon to deliver in a speech at Portland, Ore.: "We want more, we demand more, and when we get that more, we shall insist upon again more and more and even more, until we get the full fruition of our labor...
...fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains from minimizing the diabolical cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history [but] to find in sorrow and terror the starting-point of a new development...