Word: insists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said, "it's too disgusting." Baudouin did not insist...
...colonels and majors, live in lonely gimcrack farmsteads dotted about the exclusive White Highlands.They drink expensive wines and dine off good china, yet few have telephones; farmhouses are miles apart and roads are dreadful. The whites employ half a million Negroes, and could not do without them. The whites insist they don't have a color bar, only a culture bar: a civilized man of any color is welcome. To most of Kenya's 100,000 Indians and 5,500,000 Negroes, the effect is about the same...
...major obstacles to "100 percent" was the practice of "ironclads" whereby upwards of 14 men would insist on being elected to a club on masse. Current rules limit the size of such groups to five...
...Democrats stubbornly insist there is a black and white difference between amendment and repeal. They could have placed their Congressional majority behind Taft's proposals, but they preferred to keep the law inequitable in order to lure the labor vote with promises of repeal...
...successfully executed foreign policy--Lodge will be far more useful to him than a freshman Democrat, and a none too dependable Democrat at that, for Lodge is the only Republican with the record and ability to assume Vandenberg's position. Perhaps, as Dean Landis and Kennedy alike insist, Lodge could not harmonize his Party with an intelligent foreign policy. There is no point, though, in purging the GOP of its ablest specialist on foreign affairs, of one of its few remaining vestiges of responsibility, simply because bi-partisanship is not inevitable...