Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army, Dulles continued to plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense of Europe looked better than they had in two years...
...cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...
...administration provides for a common base of knowledge, so does it insist on close attendance for those whose grades are not distinguished. More than three unexcused absences in any course for a student whose average is below 2.6 (C plus) means failure in that course...
...fraternities insist that every pledge be on at least one organization. "We don't care what they do," says one brother, "but they must show initiative and do something...
...Bauer and Inkeles, that the informants were almost unanimous in agreeing that there are virtually no chances for an internal revolution or any other form of marked change in the Soviet system brought about spontaneously from within the country. Only by application of force from the outside, the refugees insist, will it be possible to overthrow the present regime...