Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncertainty & Suspense. Yoshida's long identity with the U.S. beginning with the occupation, now hurts him in the inevitable resurgence of Japanese nationalism. As for the new Democrats, they insist that they are not anti-American, only pro-Japanese. But their platform says...
...captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they own-a claim which Japan disputes...
...week's end, Vishinsky suddenly reverted to his natural character. Hurrying over to see Lodge at the U.S. delegation offices on Park Avenue, he declared that Russia would insist on submitting an amendment tying the agency to the Security Council. Brusquely, the U.S. refused. But whether Vishinsky came along or not, the West was determined to go ahead without...
...About 40% of the U.S.'s estimated 5,500,000 affiliated Jews belong to Conservative congregations, which stand between the religiously strict Orthodox Jews (4%), who insist on the letter of the law, and the Reform Jews (20%), who have changed the letter considerably (e.g., work on the Sabbath permitted, no hat worn in the synagogue...
...clutched and tormenting faith, Greene's spiritual cupboard seems bare. His well-meaning priest remarks that he has never read Paradise Lost-whose author also, as it happens, tried to "justify the ways of God to men." Certainly Greene's priest cannot justify them; he can only insist that they are somehow just. Greene's Jansenist mind-again in Milton's words-"can make a Hell of Heaven"; his stricken world suggests his fellow Catholic Francis Thompson...