Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assistant Managing Editor William J. White of the New York Daily News agreed with Knight that quality could be improved if "editors [would] show their displeasure over these timeworn cans of corn and insist that the fotogs get something new." But, he argued, if wire-service editors were to stop sending" every picture of Secretary Dulles leaving by plane for God knows where," editors would be the first to object...
...insist on putting a stop to the loose talk and erratic behavior that has marked the conduct of our foreign affairs these past three years and that has confused our purposes and frightened our friends if not our enemies. I mean creat ing or encouraging the illusion that all is well, or at least better, that miracles happened at Geneva last summer, that peace and security are around the corner like some other Republican blessings I can think of. Well, the fact is that our foreign affairs are not prospering any more than agriculture is prospering. The fact is that...
...discrimination must come from the top. Said Pitney-Bowes' WaUe" Wheeler: "The head of the corporation has to lay down the policy definitely and insist that it be carried...
...still medicine's most stubborn mystery. Again and again, the killer has eluded its pursuers. From Pharaonic times until this century, the medical profession took a fatalistic attitude that most heart disease was inevitable. Today, a health-and youth-conscious U.S. wants to believe those doctors who insist that no disease process is natural at any age. The pursuit of the killer is proceeding with greater speed-and hope-than ever...
...Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie and Audrey Meadows seemed longer and less funny, while Art Carney's sewer-born impetuosities have lost their quality...