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Word: insists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems, is the one from which Rahabaat drank and drew power; and Irma Barnfield fits the legend of the virgin goddess whose coming will insure October Island a millennium of peace and plenty. In no time, a mass conversion to Christianity takes place, but the natives insist on added sacraments. Irma must periodically spoon out milk from the stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tropical Romp | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...themselves. Nothing would end discrimination more abruptly than a refusal by white students to live in private homes and boarding houses whose owners drew a color line. There are many more rooms available than prospective tenants, and there are many more enlightened landladies than discriminators. If some landladies stubbornly insist that only white men are fit to live in their homes, that is their business. But they should get no business from Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Room: I | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

gentry may insist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR JOE McCARTHY | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...natives insist on added sacraments

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, reached agreement with Northern soft coal operators yesterday, halting a strike of 170,000 workers set for tomorrow. Lewis likely will insist on, and get, the same terms from the rest of the industry for his 300,000 other members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenhower Undecided on Nixon; Vice Presidential Candidate Opens Financial Files in Public Today | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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