Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier) printed the secret plan to send conscripts to Indo-China. Ex-Police Commissioner Baylot testified he had done nothing about the leaks. Pleaded Baylot: "You know.how it is. Whenever you signal something like that, somebody will tell you he'll take care of it. And if you insist that something be done, then they insult you and call you a McCarthyite...
...wrong to say that Hoadley and Gill are Leverett House; they are the first to point out that they are not. But what they have contributed is all conducive to spirit, though they insist their parts rise out of the spirit of the House members...
Gandhi was also willing to compromise. Even in his first struggle against the Black Act, he did not insist on an all-or-nothing solution. After receiving substantial concessions from Jan Christian Smuts, Gandhi agreed to ask the Indians to register voluntarily. Why not register, he told them, if we do it freely? Gandhi was the first to register, but he was brutally clubbed by one of his own countrymen who felt registration would sacrifice principle. To Gandhi, this trust in Smuts' word was the essence of Satyagraha, for "the Satyagrahi bids good-bye to fear," he wrote. "Even...
British military authorities insist privately that Britain's bases on Cyprus are safe only if Britain controls the island. Eden could not say this, but concluded: "The welfare and even the very lives of our people depend on Cyprus as a protective guard and staging post to take care of [our Middle East] interests-above all, oil. This is not imperialism. It should be the plain duty of any government, and we intend to discharge it." Tories cheered...
...case, the date is relatively unimportant. The Democrats should be willing to sacrifice a doubtful political advantage for the merit of having a governor who is capable of long-term planning. Because 1958 is the date on the initial measure passed two years ago, the Democrats, if they insist on a different year, would make it necessary for another session to approve the amendment before it would go the people. The increasing need for a four year term does not permit the luxuries of unimportant party squabbles and further delays...