Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright's demand for a voice in any new decision was swiftly echoed. "I think we must insist upon that," said New Jersey Republican Clifford Case. It also quickly spread into a wide-ranging attack on the war. Said Case: "It is now a question as to whether or not the war is winnable without the destruction of South Viet Nam and much of American might itself...
...Lucy Stoners, named for a formidable suffragette, insist on the use of their maiden names, even though they are married...
...recommend school improvements to the legislature. In Florida, Governor Claude Kirk belatedly agreed to sign into law a $254 million school-appropriations bill passed by his Democratic-controlled legislature-thus abandoning his promise not to raise taxes. Although the measure provides for $58 million in salary increases, the teachers insist that even more money is needed for new kindergarten classes, more textbooks and additional teachers, want assurances that the state will consider the Florida Education Association the bargaining agent for all of the state's teachers...
...creature is stronger than his creator, or so Jean Anouilh would have us believe in The Cavern. The characters insist on their own independent existence, and the unwary playwright suddenly finds himself part of the play, seduced by the vitality of his own inventions...
...draft has messed many things up, not the least of which is the "drop-out program." The war is on, draft calls are up, and the students who insist they march to a different drum than Harvard's must do their marching in the Yard...