Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exercise its good offices. I believe, because wherever there is any kind of fighting and open violence in the world . . . it is always sort of a powder keg. Whether the United Nations could do anything in this particular place, I don't know, because probably each side would insist that it was an internal affair...
...display of the female bust, or, as he termed it, sex appendage [TIME, Dec. 27]: I do not believe that it is as much the Hollywood influence as the trend or style established by our doctors, who, for the past 25 years or more, have failed to insist that their patients use that appendage for what nature intended it for-nursing their babies . . . Had this appendage been given as much publicity on what it is really intended for . . . we'd have less psychoses today in mothers and babies...
...pleasantly in a world of welterweight music, gardens, politics, and a tidal wave of Neuberger articles. In 1950 after Dick had graduated to the state senate, Maurine filed for a seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers lived...
...task. They think Eisenhower has had a very long honeymoon, with his good qualities magnified and advertised, his shortcomings widely excused. Their argument is that the Presidency is not a popularity contest. If it were, they think Eisenhower well might win it no matter what the opposition proved. They insist that the people can and will accept what they call a calm, honest and realistic presentation of the Eisenhower philosophy and character. "And if the people won't," said one veteran politician, "we've already lost...
...They Know? The habits of the toad are certainly mysterious. Why is it that they always insist on climbing over an obstacle, even when it would be far easier to go under? And how do they know where their breeding ground is? They seem to follow no particular leader, nor do they travel in processions or with any apparent system whatsoever. To find out whether they might be following their sense of smell, the boys smeared the toads' nostrils with Vaseline, but the uncooperative toads promptly wiped...