Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week, Dr. Serin reported the findings to the Academy of Medicine. Its staid members listened with dismay, promptly began to lay plans for a big anti-alcoholism campaign in French schools. It will be a difficult and a delicate job, for, as any French peasant will confidently insist, a little wine never hurt anybody...
...That doesn't matter at all," .replies Lungo. "The trouble is that some people insist he was the son of God. That's the ugly part...
...suggested by Molotov) would deprive Laos and Cambodia of French military advisers, or of any right to outside technical or military assistance. He also expressed "grave doubts" that the military conversations would actually result in the withdrawal of Viet Minh invaders from Laos and Cambodia, since the Communists still insist that the Viet Minh were only ''volunteers." The British and the French shrugged. The Communists had the West firmly back on the hook again...
...told by one of Chou's underlings. "If they have any complaints, let them come to us directly." Chou En-lai snapped to a Canadian diplomat: "The Americans are behaving like children. We are prepared to sit down and negotiate anything with them at any time. But we insist on being treated as equals, and the Americans refuse to do that...
Theologians, churchmen and their followers are getting set for a high-level hassle in August, when the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches meets in Evanston, 111 . Main theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian...