Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French fight a kind of war within their own means. They accept substantial American aid but insist on deciding what kind and determining its uses, and have an irritating way of making only minimal public acknowledgment of it. In an age of atom and jet. there is no thought of the atom bomb and not a jet in the country. Over the only existing live war against the Communists, the weapons are those of World War II: U.S.-made B-26s. Bearcats and Corsairs. Talk of American air armadas to a French air commander, and he answers that he hasn...
...victory at Dienbienphu would be a major setback for Ho Chi Minh, a defeat for Communists everywhere. It might also provide the kind of electric stimulus which, on occasion, makes France capable of surprising the world; at the very least, it would act as a tonic for those who insist that the war can still...
Along with all the other things they like to say about the U.S., some Europeans insist that Americans have no sense of history. To Historian C. Vann Woodward of Johns Hopkins University, that notion is pure bunk. Says he, in the Johns Hopkins Magazine: Americans have such an exaggerated sense of history that they use it as a prop to explain or excuse every conceivable type of policy or position. The result: Americans can no longer "believe our own history...
After a half-century of anarchy, music by young Americans seems to be settling down to an era of less revolution and greater creativity. Student composers no longer insist on cacophony just to sound up-to-date, nor do they shudder at anything resembling melody...
...should be made compulsory for 12 or nine months. The spokesmen for the graduate schools, on the other hand, have supported the full-year coverage and their reasons seem logical. Only about seven dollars more per year would insure these extra three months. And since the University officials insist on covering all their men during the school term, there is little reason for them to drop all interest in a student's health with final exams. A twelve month plan would be the more practical and reasonable system for most undergraduates, as well as for those in graduate and professional...