Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama's Hill, New Mexico's Anderson, Minnesota's Humphrey and Illinois' Douglas, had filibustered since April Fools' Day to delay voting on the majority-favored Holland bill, which would grant the seaboard states title to offshore lands within "historic" boundaries. The filibusters still insist that they are not really filibustering, and capital correspondents, who would thunder at the first sign of an old-fashioned Southern filibuster, have gone along with the game by refraining from using the word "filibuster" in their copy...
...section meetings. Sophomores in English 10 who answered the CRIMSON poll inclined toward the latter view. Tying tutorial to one course limits its scope. If a standardized plan of study is necessary for the sophomore, this also can be served in the sections of a survey course. But to insist that tutorial be this rigid and uniform is to destroy much of its benefit...
...tenured teachers who invoke the Fifth Amendment, they save all the nasty fuss and publicity that comes with trying to judge each case on its own merits. In their own attitude toward the Reluctant Professors, the presidents of the AAU universities are somewhat more concerned with individual justice. They insist that a tenured professor who uses the Fifth Amendment bears "a heavy burden of proof" of his fitness to keep teaching, but they at least give him a chance to defend his competence before a non-political university body. They even mention standards such rump courts can judge...
...Democrats insist, however, that the criminal action was none of their doing and resulted only from a mistake by the clerk of courts...
Despite the confident surface, her friends insist that Ros is a chronic worrier who sometimes gives way to spells of brooding and sudden tears. Her religion (Roman Catholic) bulks large in her life, and she is apt to describe her favorite priests as "living saints." But to religion, as to everything else, she brings a measure of humorous detachment: she once dubbed her flossy Beverly Hills parish church "Our Lady of the Cadillacs." She is a tireless do-gooder and works actively for some 30 charitable and civic activities. Usually she volunteers for the least popular job of all-raising...