Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative sessions, from 1945 through 1953, Warren proposed, in one form or another, a state agency to assure fair treatment of all races. The proposal was rejected each time, but Warren personally stuck to the stand he had taken as a candidate for Vice President in 1948: "We must insist upon one law for all men . . . Anything that divides us or limits the opportunities for full American citizenship is injurious to the welfare...
...this week some of the answers were shaping up. At a recent political dinner in his honor, "Goody" Knight set forth his credo: "I propose to take sides and to make decisions . . . There is a special place in hell for those who, confronted with a real moral crisis, insist on remaining neutral. I have no ambition to achieve such a special place." Afterward the governor's daughter Marilyn, 26, said that she was awed by the crowd's size. Explained the governor: "They didn't come to see us, honey; they came to see the movie stars...
...There are those who insist that segregation protects the 'integrity' of both races. There are others who believe, with deep sincerity, [that] Negroes are 'better off' under it. Conceivably this might be argued with some logic. It does not matter. The world, in the throes of a social revolution which began with the coming of the industrial revolution, and which was tremendously accelerated by two great world wars, has moved on. Segregation by law no longer fits today's world...
Burns made Jean Armour a mother again, and this time her parents were only too eager to insist on a match. In the spring of 1788 they were married, but they did not live happily ever after. For one thing, Burns had reservations about the earthiness of his Jean: "Mrs. Burns is getting stout again, & laid as lustily about her today at breakfast as a Reaper from the corn-ridge...
...claim about Christ's promise to build His church on the "rock" of Peter, with his accompanying command to rule the faithful?† Luther and the Protestant reformers held that by "rock" Christ meant not Peter but Himself, or the faith of His followers. Many modern Biblical scholars insist that the text itself is either spurious or garbled...