Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read: "We believe that they (the President and Corporation ) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths." Moore said he felt that these criteria would allow a person to use the Fifth Amendment to avoid testimony...
Bullfight fans hold that the contest between man and bull is not sport but drama. Gringos, who often find themselves cheering the bull, insist that whatever it is, it is loaded in favor of the bullfighter. Last week, as the new season opened in Mexico City, the gringos had reason to believe they might have been right. President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had decided that the drama needed some editing; he decreed 98 changes in the bullfighting code, designed to give the bulls a better break and to take some of the histrionics out of the bullfighters...
...controversial principle: "We believe that the President and Corporation will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths.' At first glance, this is innocuous enough. But theses ideas have inevitably been the preamble to a resolution against discharging teachers who are members of the Communist Party. Regardless of the merits of this stand...
...believe that (the President and the Corporation) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort the facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths...
...would like to see women-history's most effective medium of communication -turn their talents to saving their husbands from early death by lung cancer. . . . They should insist that men with persistent coughs go see the doctor. Because most men are notoriously insensitive to seemingly minor symptoms, the job will not be easy. In most cases it may entail some nagging, but I believe most women will agree that it is better to have a live and healthy husband, however harassed he may be, than to allow him to go complacently to an untimely grave...