Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if the Midwest is granted a certain amount of insularity, this ignorance reflects more than disinterest in current affairs; it indicates the Zeitgeist of a nation which--formerly complacent about its technological superiority--has failed to insist upon rigorous education, especially in science...
Hypnotized salesmen insist the scheme works. Starting out with two slumping salesmen at the agency where he worked, Mikesell experimented on them "whenever we had time between deals." Suddenly both men went on hot selling streaks, and the agency promptly sent 13 of its 22 salesmen in for the same treatment. Result, according to the agency: eight of the 13 are doing 100% better, two are much better, one a little better, only two showed no improvement. Says one man, who grumpily treated every customer as a "tire kicker," someone who is just killing time: "Now I treat every customer...
...club merger issue is another topic on which student discussion should be encouraged. The debate has become clouded by secrecy proceedings in the channels supposedly working on a solution, If the Administration refuses to make its views public, there is little that students can do. But student opinion should insist that the Student Council discuss the question openly...
...derives from the fact that her father, King Mohammed V (the title he assumed this year), is spiritual leader of Morocco's 9,000,000 Moslems as well as their temporal ruler. For that struggle has also meant a head-on clash with the mullahs of Islam, who insist that the Koran, as the literal word of the Prophet, is subject to no modification or review whatever. The King has dedicated both himself and his daughter to the proposition that the Koran is a living creed, that if Mohammed were alive today, he would be shocked at the uses...
...French army, inertia, poor pay, bad quarters and a casual official unconcern for the soldiers' dependents back home sap morale. Most of the generals, according to Servan-Schreiber, are ribbon-happy pols who insist on military operations in keeping with their inflated status even when their sectors contain no one in particular to shoot-except innocents...