Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of NATO forces in Europe" (and the current effort to adjust and streamline NATO divisions to make them "more mobile and better adapted to modern warfare" should not be confused with any reduction in strength). Thus, said Dulles, the U.S. will stand pat against those who insist that Russia's problems in Eastern Europe are any excuse for a dilution of strength in Western Europe...
...years old). Like most of the village houses, it has had additions, interpolations and subtractions through the years, and like many of the dwellings, it once served as a boarding house itself. Oil furnaces have made the constant struggle to keep warm only a memory, though most housewives insist that their kitchens have at least a token woodstove for toast and rice-pudding making...
...could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director Sherman Voorhees of the Pittsburgh chamber, "are delinquent." Instead of learning how to use the encyclopedia, "children are being taught the easy way out." Adds a Pittsburgh businessman: "If teachers insist that their students bother companies for information, why don't they have the courtesy to see that they do it right? If they'd tell the children how to write proper letters, we'd be happy...
...authorities insist that computer forecasting should not be judged by its present performance but by its capacity to improve. Old-style forecasting is partly a subjective art, but the computing machine is objective. It will always come to the same conclusion about the same set of figures, and as the figures improve, its forecasts will improve also...
...Israel's supreme desire is for peace, and the U.S. should use all its influence to insist that the Arab states end their hostility and agree to enter peace negotiations with Israel. David Ginsburg...