Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest pride is his job as official swearer-in. Said Mr. Will: "I swear in all foreign service employees, and as long as I swear them in, they are going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled...
...Legion of Decency, and on the Legion, to induce it to expose its own campaigns to public criticism and debate. Abuses of power will disappear only when the majority of moviegoers stick up for their right to see a film as firmly and as loudly as religious minorities insist on their right to oppose...
...string along with Joe's wild charges than to settle down to a sober examination of the chuckleheaded "liberalism," the false assumptions and the fatuous complacency that had endangered the security of the U.S. That he got a lot of help from the Administration spokesmen who still insist that nothing was wrong with U.S. policy helps to explain McCarthy's success-although it in no way excuses McCarthy...
...cease-fire prospects brightened once again, two things appeared certain. One was that the U.S. has no intention of settling on the 38th parallel, but will insist on the present battle line, though willing to give & take a little. The other is that if the Reds reject peace, and U.N. forces push forward in a full-scale offensive, there is only one safe place they could stop: the Pyongyang-Wonsan line across the narrow waist of North Korea. At that place, there would be no doubt...
...candidacy. Certainly part of the Radicals' new defiance rose from the belief that the army no longer fully backed Perón. But they were not pinning their hopes on a barrackroom revolt. Another Radical orator called upon the army last week to stay neutral and insist upon an honest election...