Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing noiseless study rooms for frantic pre-meds before final exams. One custodian declares that he has served "as house mother, father, confessor, and loan shop." But regardless of student friendships, all House night watchmen insist that they have never relaxed in inforcing the 8:00 p.m. pariotal rule...
Three Essentials. How the President goes about this task is his problem. But any observer of Washington knows that he has to insist that his own lieutenants show rudimentary political savvy in dealing with McCarthy. Next, he has to clarify the U.S. strategy against Communism, especially in the Far East, so that Mc Carthy cannot make capital out of Administration weakness...
Curtin's reaction was drastic. Last month he posted a sign overlooking King David Memorial Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...
Claude Williams promptly announced that he would appeal "the whole thing to the highest courts of the church." In his appeal, he said, he "will insist that it is the moral responsibility of the presbytery to find me innocent or guilty of their charge that I am a Communist or have followed the party line." Williams' prosecutors wanted the issue settled too; if he did not take the Communist charge to higher authority, the prosecutors might...
...Michael Gedge found the concern of Anglican bishops for clerical job security excessive. Said Anglican Gedge: "Obsessed by the national mania for security in all jobs, troubled by the very natural difficulty of maintaining a wife and family on the lowest of professional wages . . . bishops are apt to insist that a house, a stipend of ?550, dilapidations paid by the parish, and perhaps a few other extras, are the absolute minimum [for undertaking] charge of a parish. Yet one cannot help feeling that there is something wrong in all this; that young men are not moved by the call...