Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Hall has refused to disclose its plans. If Treasurer Paul Cabot has taken part in player contract negotiations or exhibition game arrangements, he has kept it a well guarded secret. Members of his staff insist he has no comment. The deputy treasurer refuses to make any predictions about either pennant or attendance prospects...
Minor Alterations. To woo the nationalists, who insist that France must keep full control over its army, Mayer presented the five other EDC partners (West Germany, Italy and Benelux) with nine last-minute protocols, each one subtly designed to change the sense and substance of EDC in France's favor. If accepted, the most important changes would...
...here the two contending forces of this mid-20th century stand face to face. Let me make plain the position of my Government." The U.S., said Conant, is "pledged to see to it that this city continues as an unshaken outpost of the Western world. We shall continue to insist on the free circulation within Berlin of all its inhabitants. The U.S. , is determined to keep open the lines of communication with Berlin...
...carrot look," said Gimbels, by wearing big collars, rounded jackets, yoked shawls, standaway necklines and stoles. You get the carrot look by wearing slim, clinging skirts. If you will insist on full skirts, for reasons aesthetical or anatomical, you shoo the fullness to the rear and never wear more than one petticoat. It's [also] possible to look utterly 1953 by standing on your head...
...certain small percentage of obstetricians hold themselves unalterably (and irrationally) opposed to natural childbirth, basing their objections on flimsy scientific reasoning, and insist on complete anesthesia during delivery so that they can manually extract the child. Their unconscious motivation: that they cannot bear to allow a woman to do something which they want to do themselves; in the last analysis, they insist that they must bear the baby...