Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North; Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, a dove turned mild hawk, seemed ready to change feathers again with a call for a bombing pause; and Illinois' Charles Percy, who has frequently voiced discontent over Viet Nam before, got 22 colleagues to cosponsor a resolution asking the President to insist Asia's non-Communist nations share more of the fighting with...
...laws that drive women to illegal abortion. In empirical terms, the debaters are mired in side issues. Vital as fetal rights unquestionably are, the bedrock problem is not whether the fetus is inchoate and hence expendable, as law reformers claim, or whether it is human and inviolable, as opponents insist. The problem is unwanted pregnancy and how to treat...
Outside Church. The new conversational spirit of confession means that more and more encounters between priest and penitent are taking place outside of church. At numerous Catholic colleges, chaplains will hear confessions in their own rooms, or even while walking on campus. Many priests no longer insist that penitents recite a detailed account of their sins, prefer freeform discussions about their wrongdoing. Occasionally, devout Catholic husbands and wives will approach a priest together for a joint examination of their spiritual failings, prior to individual, private confessions...
Things hadn't gone far enough when Rebekah Baines' son insisted that the American involvement in South Vietnam was due to "naked aggression from the North." Nor, apparently, was it sufficient to insist that American bombs and napalm were scarring the countryside "to help the Vietnamese help themselves...
...major difficulty with Part B is that physicians have a choice as to how they will collect. They may insist, as the American Medical Association and other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered...