Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just four months after Nasser had been saved (by the U.S. and U.N.) from military defeat, and had restored to him what his armies could not hold, Nasser announced last week that as soon as the U.N. clears the Suez Canal for him, he will insist on holding control over the transport systems, the factory-output levels and the room temperatures of Western Europe...
...only sell to women, they also buy the great bulk of their plots from women, whose unsolicited revelations pour over publishers' transoms with every mail. Some publishers, such as Macfadden Publications, which owns True Experience, True Love Stories and True Romance as well as bestselling True Story, insist that all the stories in their magazines are based on "real-life" contributions from readers...
Nasser last week promised a group of student visitors from Gaza "to win back all Palestine." Diplomats in Cairo believe that Nasser may accept indefinite stationing of U.N. Emergency Force troops to keep peace along the border, but will insist on control over Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. Last week John Foster Dulles made plain that the U.S. will not be disposed to release the $50 million in blocked Egyptian funds so long as Nasser shows himself intractable...
College administrators and graduate school admissions officers appear to be satisfied with grades as forecasters. Yet they insist they do not rely entirely on grades to judge people, saying that when they know someone competing for a fellowship or prize, grades become secondary to personal appraisal. They explain this apparent contradiction by arguing that only grades can work on a large scale, because of the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans making recommendations...
...immediate peril, but neither does it prove the contrary. They suspect that the average human being contains about eight times more strontium 90. than was reported in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 18), and they note that the amount is increasing, and may be increasing rapidly. They insist that no one knows how much is needed to damage health...