Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been trying to get information about this secret program," said Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, "but they insist we jump into the dark...
...representatives of my Government fail to support the President on his Middle East policy, they will be doing far more to aid "Russianism" than a true Communist. If they insist on a watered-down, minus-this-or-that version, would they mind the U.S. Army being minus one less G.I.? I'd sure like to be home...
...reason to change his high opinion of the Secretary of State. And in any event, said he, sending his definition of command responsibility ringing round Capitol Hill and the world: "Secretary Dulles . . . has never taken any action which I have not in advance approved. I insist again that these matters are not taken spasmodically, impulsively. They are not policies developed off of top-of-the-head thinking. They take weeks and weeks, and when they come out, and are applied, they have my approval from top to bottom...
...party given by ... What's her name! Soprano. Her name is like . . . Violetta. Violetta!" Some viewers get the feeling that he knows most of the answers immediately and simply makes the audience squirm for the money he gets. But Charlie and those who know him best insist that it is actually his technique of ferreting out the answers ("You can see him making the thinking connections...
...then sacrificed on the altar of our outraged literary conscience; then possibly revived again, only to be interred--the American literary life makes a new chapter for The Golden Bough. And of course it is not only the readers and critics who support our savage demand for greatnes, who insist that every writer carry a banner with the strange device, 'Pike's Peak or Bust;' it is also the writers themselves...