Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defiance of French national will, London and Washington are infatuated enough to insist on German rearmament, then the French are entitled to obtain what security they can against the evil consequences of their allies' blindness. Yet this does not mean that the issue is settled. The French Prime Minister still has a chance of preventing the Treaty ever coming into force. Having appeased his allies and thereby restored Western unity, Mendes-France must surely use the position of strength thus created in order to seek negotiations with the Russians for a German peace treaty. When that French initiative comes...
...Insist ... In Detroit. Claude Berry was given ten days for drunken driving, despite his insistence that "three masked men grabbed me. pulled a knife and forced a lot of whisky down my throat. That's how I got drunk...
...urging of Martinaud-Déplat and Baylot, he planted reports with U.S. intelligence that Mitterrand was a pro-Communist security risk who was disinclined to crack down on Communist sympathizers. Dides also refused to tell Mitterrand or anyone else how the spying was done. The plan, insist Mendès' friends, was to expose the leaks during the London Conference, discrediting Mitterrand and perhaps even toppling Mendès himself...
Marlon's friends insist that he is a thoroughly misunderstood young man. "If this is a slob," says Producer George Glass, "it should of happened to me." Director Kazan calls him "one of the gentlest-every possibly the gentlest-person I have ever known." A girl friend claims that until recently he was so sensitive that he hated to eat lettuce because it was so noisy. Wally Cox says he is "a creative philosopher, a very deep thinker. He's a real liberating force for his friends...
...Your remarks, "Professional nature lovers like Bernard DeVoto, Richard Neuberger and Wallace Stegner, all of whom wear shoes and live in houses while writing about the great outdoors, etc., etc.," are quite ridiculous. If your Art Editor writes a story about one of Titian's nudes, do you insist that he work in his office naked...