Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Christian clergymen want to convert the pagan, why do they insist on invading countries that have been Catholic for centuries? And if they do enter such countries, why must they preach a vicious, and-Catholic brand of Christianity...
...Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatrick announced that after two years of war the Far East Air Forces were in the best shape ever. In Korea, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins promised that more and heavier air blows would rain on North Korea "if they [the Communists] insist on prolonging the war." Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations who was also in the Pacific, spoke up for the Navy. Fechteler said that two new carrier jets, able to cope with the enemy's MIG-15, are in production, and that soon all the Navy...
...Leader. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang resent the notion that they are living in exile. Taipei, they insist, is simply the provisional capital of China, just as Chungking was during World War II. Although Chiang's vast domain has shrunk to a mere 14,000 square miles, his icy dignity has, if anything, increased. Nobody is now, or ever was, on back-slapping terms with Chiang. At 65, he lives a Spartan life, eats sparingly, and neither drinks nor smokes...
Some passengers who ride with G are naval airmen, but the G-doctors often submit themselves to experiment. The doctors insist that riding with G is not very dangerous; the instruments watch the victim's condition, and the arm can be stopped quickly if he gets in bad shape...
...allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent, that the history of Mike Romanoff had solidified into an almost impenetrable legend. Although U.S. immigration authorities and some friends insist he is not an American, the most persistently recurring version of his background is that he was born Harry F. Gerguson in Brooklyn some time before the turn of the century, that he escaped from six successive orphanages, that he was farmed out to various individuals who tried to straighten...