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Word: insists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold newspaper space and radio time; I've sold housewives hospital insurance and I've sold businessmen businesses. In short, sir, I'm the salesman you claim is dead. Confidentially, I'm still alive-in spite of management! In order to live the way I insist upon living, I must net, after taxes, a minimum of $8,000 a year. I am kept at that level by stupid management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Dreadful Theory. Too many people, says La Farge, insist that such evidences of non-education are the price the nation must pay for a truly democratic school system. This "is a form of insistence that all be held down to a level, rather than . . . trying to raise all to a level." Nonetheless, "parents can get a superior education for their children in private schools . . . Like owning a Cadillac or wearing tailor-made clothes, the superior education costs money . . . [But] in our democracy there is nothing against buying something better if you can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Rampart | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...France is unlikely to accept the British stand of his own volition, and the unfortunate diplomatic war will continue unless the State department attempts to resolve the issues by making a policy statement. The United States should insist that she will ot prejudice her friendship with Britain for the sake of Spanish air bases: France must not use America as a lever for territorial claims. Firmness may not end the conflict, defense of Western Europe, and would assure the British that America respects her intention to remain at Gibraltar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock of Ages | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...offered the West wholly unfeasible plans for atomic control and the unification of Germany and has accomplished what has long been a goal of Russian diplomacy: to make the West appear as opponents of peace. If anything constructive is to come from the Berlin talks, the West must insist that the conference confine its efforts to the important questions of Germany and Austria. Final decisions on disarmament can not be limited to discussions between the U.S. and Russia but must take place in the United nations where effective police action can be initiated. It is difficult to believe, however, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin Overtures | 2/4/1954 | See Source »

...Calculus at best is difficult, I recollect ... Do you insist that it be made impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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