Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some British newsmen blame the limited British coverage of the U.S. on the newsprint shortage. It follows, they insist, since British papers have so little space they can only print the sensational news from the U.S. But every time paper rationing is eased, British dailies use the extra newsprint to add more entertainment and feature news...
...tune, also used for God Save the King was already an old one. Some scholars say that Dr John Bull wrote it in 1619; others insist that t was written by the Scottish composer James Oswald in 1742. As far as Smith was concerned however, the tune was a German one-Prussia's Heil Dir im Siegerkranz...
...left independent, free to choose their own routes to progress. This goal, originally pronounced most explicitly (if a little cynically) in the Open Door policy toward China, has become through Acheson the main weapon against Soviet imperialism. Its moral force and it practical advantages seem lost on those who insist that the free world in exchange for United States money mold itself in the United States' die. They were not lost on Acheson, and thus a proven tradition was maintained...
...chance of surviving lay in signing an oil agreement. U.S. negotiators reported him the most conciliatory he has ever been, though, remembering many past disappointments, they were guarded in their optimism. If he agrees to accept arbitration on Anglo-Iranian claims for breach of contract (which the British adamantly insist upon), Anglo-Iranian is prepared to buy 10 million tons of Iranian oil a year, and the U.S. to give Mossadegh large sums of economic aid. In Teheran, Ambassador Henderson wore a path to Mossadegh's bedside...
...target for the exponents of orthodoxy. That is where orthodoxy counts, for if it wins in the schools and colleges it cannot be beaten. If unorthodox ideas and unorthodox people are methodically suppressed by teachers and educational institutions, freedom becomes a word of purely historical interest. If those who insist upon orthodoxy are not defeated, by 1984 the world may well resemble George Orwell's vivid warning...