Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genetics & Bomb Tests. A part of the public seems to think that the chief concern of genetics is the hereditary damage that may or may not be done by the radioactive fallout from nuclear bombs and bomb tests. Geneticists insist that this matter is not a central part of their science, but none of them takes the potential effects of fallout lightly. They have spent their working lives with experimental organisms deliberately deformed by radiation. They know how recessive damaged genes persist unnoticed for many generations, only to appear (and perhaps to kill or cripple) when two of them meet...
...issue, TIME referred, in connection with Dean Acheson's speech at Detroit, to "the hand-wringers of his own party (including . . . State Department key man, George Kennan) who insist on the international summit conference even if held on propaganda-serving Soviet terms...
...seven biggest producers to hold some coffee off the market in an effort to prop prices. Just the same, Colombia's exporters are grumbling that holding back only encourages rival African producers to enlarge their share, now about 20%, of the world market. Pegged prices, they insist, allow African producers to undersell them...
...women chase the elusive dream of beauty with such frightening energy? The obvious answer-that they want to appear more attractive to men-is only part of the truth. Women insist that it is the psychological lift that makes cosmetics important in their lives. Says Mrs. Ruth Kay, a Cleveland housewife: "If I feel down, I take extra pains with makeup. When a woman feels she looks her best, she radiates a pleasant attitude and gives the entire family a lift. Without makeup she is self-conscious and won't put her best foot forward...
...everyone must compromise, and frequently the wrong things are compromised. Most high school newspaper editors, for example, have known the frustration of desiring to print a piece of perfectly legitimate news which the faculty adviser bans on the grounds that it will "make the school look bad." Frequently, principals insist upon reading copy for the paper after the adviser has done so, making sure that it contains nothing that could be possibly be construed as offensive to anyone...