Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headmaster Lloyd M. Clark of Pennsylvania's Kis kiminetas Springs School, the big competition for education is not a crisis but a cause for rejoicing. "This change at the admissions office," says he, "has altered the atmosphere all over the campus. In the classrooms the professors can insist on high achievement levels and dismiss the loafer . . . The time has come when the college student must really produce . . . How the educators love this...
...middle of a long, rectangular room that had once been a synagogue. Banked in two long tiers, the audience craned to watch the play as though peering from the ends of a bowling alley. But no one complained. Off-Broadway patrons have long since learned not to insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled...
...hours, his bold venture to carry the fight into the heart of the North was lost, and with it the Confederacy's last chance to turn the tide of the Civil War. What caused his failure? The obvious answer is: the Union Army. But there are many who insist that the answer is more subtle, that the blame lay in General Lee's constant concern for the feelings of his subordinates-a concern so deeply rooted that it diluted his ability to command...
...Wishy-Washy. The prediction brought Wisconsin, and especially the port city of Milwaukee, flailing into the battle of the waters. City officials declared they would rally the Great Lakes states to fight new diversion attempts. Moreover, they said, if Illinois seeks extension of the temporary increase, they would insist that Wisconsin's attorney general file objections with the court, and would expect the "wishy-washy Lake states," which did not resist the temporary diversion, to join the fight...
...fault in my estimate of Cyprus ... it has none or practically none of the requisites of an efficient military base." Unshaken by this argument, Lennox-Boyd last week clung stubbornly to the line that Cyprus is strategically vital and that self-determination must wait. If Greek Cypriots continued to insist on union with Greece, he said, the "inevitable" result would be partition of Cyprus' 3,572 square miles into Greek and Turkish zones...