Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want entertainment that will keep everyone interested throughout the Smoker," said Storey, "and only insist on its meeting reasonable standards of propriety." Auditions of student acts are being continued...
...think I can say any more than that my husband and I have separated." Next day, still escorted by Frankie, and tastefully clad in mink over shocking-pink cotton stockings ("They're divinely warm," she said), Gloria played hide-and-seek with the press, pausing only to insist that "this separation has nothing to do with any third person." Courtly to the last, her abandoned husband took pity on newsmen stamping their feet in the cold outside his Gracie Square home and invited them in for hot coffee, served, a grateful reporter noted, in cups of the finest English...
...doubt in the Communists' mind about the meaning of this. On Aug. 31, 1953 their representatives on the Military Armistice Commission said: "Our side has repeatedly stated that our side will repatriate before the conclusion of the repatriations operation all captured personnel of your side who insist on repatriation, including those prisoners of war who have committed crimes before or after their capture...
...applicants expected any "progress." Since Jan. 1 the council has not approved a single major U.S. proposal to invest in Japan. Said one U.S. businessman, whose $200,000 offer has been hanging fire for a year: "They tell you it probably won't be approved and if you insist on applying they just drag their feet until you withdraw." Another businessman with $600,000 to invest sat in the Imperial Hotel last week sipping bourbon and complained: "I'll use up all the money I've come to invest paying whisky and hotel bills...
...died), Beethoven tried to own his life com pletely, eventually drove him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Freudians Richard and Editha Sterba charge Beethoven with an "unconscious homosexual" relationship with both his brothers; they imply the same sort of thing in regard to his nephew and. in addition, insist that Beethoven felt toward him not like an uncle but like a very maternal mother. But the documents seem to indicate only that Beethoven had the feelings of an adoring if tyrannical relative for his nephew and that he hammered his Promethean will at the boy's head like...