Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constitution, be administered by the executive branch of the Government alone, and the Congress has no right to confer upon its committees the power to veto executive action or to prevent executive action from becoming effective. Since the organization of our Government, the President has felt bound to insist that executive functions be maintained unimpaired by legislative encroachment, just as the legislative branch has felt bound to resist interference with its power by the executive...
...violas during Beethoven's "Eroica" in Ceylon. The heat could untune a piano half a tone in two hours and rot a dress suit in a matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts. In Manila an enthusiast presented them with sport shirts decorated with pictures of Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who trained the orchestra (as the NBC Symphony), and left...
...election returns, 3) a guarantee, by all four powers, that a reunited Germany will be free to decide its own foreign policy and to make its own alliances. Eden expects the election to be internationally supervised, but no longer demands it. figuring that the West Germans themselves will insist on its being free...
...floored with sterile beechwood chips, the beer is injected with a freshly yeasted brew known as "krausen," which starts a secondary, month-long fermentation to carbonate Budweiser naturally. Some brewers argue that krausening is an expensive, old-fashioned process which does little good. But Anheuser-Busch's brewmasters insist that it results in a fresher, better-tasting beer...
...home on East Street, he riffled through a 2-ft.-high stack of telegrams. Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local Ford dealer dropped around to insist that Jack try out a Thunderbird, al though he already owns a 1955 Buick and an aging Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into...