Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia go to foreign diplomats in Moscow or to official libraries and institutes. The rugged individualists who still read TIME behind the Iron Curtain are in the satellites. Their eagerness for news of the Free World must make them hardened to danger, for they sometimes communicate with us, insist that we continue their subscriptions, and by some oversight of bureaucracy receive their copies of TIME regularly-sometimes for years...
...landed Socialist Mollet, who is no Popular Fronter,* in the bear's hug embrace of the Soviets. At a Moscow reception last week Nikita Khrushchev turned jubilantly to Foreign Minister Molotov and said: "Do you remember how we defended this [disarmament] position at Geneva and then did not insist on it when we saw that it was irreconcilable with the Western stand?" Without giving Molotov time to answer, Khrushchev added: "Now Mollet is saying what we said...
...prizewinning partners insist that their "California" style is simply a natural adaptation to the California way of life. Says Wurster: "One doesn't want regionalism for its own sake, but only if it fits the problem." The firm's record to date has brought commissions for everything from master plans for 21 Air Force bases in the U.S. to a $14 million community project of the Ford assembly plant at Milpitas, Calif. What pleases the partners most is that clients no longer come in asking for something "modern." Says Wurster: "You can be sure that American colonists never...
...increasing group of articulate and thoughtful observers holds that if the adoption of this difficult and more positive approach to our present global dilemma is dependent on the workings of the democratic process in America and elsewhere, we must despair of it. The inherent characteristics of democratic government, they insist, make it impossible for nations so governed to choose the hard course. Those in power, in order to maintain their positions, must continuously cater to the domestic interests and whims of a fragile and shifting numerical majority. Inevitably these interests, even in critical periods such as this, will reflect. short...
...Tatio to make him a Knight of the Order of St. George in 1953, Reed for once overstayed a 15-minute appointment, spent an hour talking travel with the King. Reed was so proud of the decoration that for days afterward, whenever he spotted an acquaintance, he would insist on showing off his medal, exclaiming delightedly: "Look what I've got!" In addition to decorations from France, Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium, Reed was honored recently by the Five Flies, an Amsterdam restaurant, which installed a copper plaque in one of its chairs boasting that Ralph Reed once...