Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against children?-and welcomed a recount. But there is little indication that the House has, in fact, changed its mind on helping the cities. "There is no change in the House of Representatives' attitude," said G.O.P. Minority Leader Gerald Ford. "The House Republicans are going to continue to insist on substantial savings in all domestic programs...
...Midland, Texas, has hopes of gleaning sulfur from gypsum. And the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Monsanto Co. and others are hard at work to find ways of turning the old fire-and-brimstone villain into a new hero. Those pollutants that belch forth from factory smokestacks can, they insist, be scrubbed to yield a surprising amount of salable sulfur...
Rocky, for his part, remained rigidly faithful to Romney, and ignored Republican moderates who insist that he rev up his own well-oiled presidential machine. All of a sudden the mellow elder statesman, Rockefeller allowed: "Something happens in life and you lose ambition because you have fulfillment. There are things that happen inside. I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist. I can't analyze it for you exactly. But I just don't have the ambition or the need or inner drive-or whatever the word is-to get in again. I've never been...
...schools of Michigan discovered last week that no bell tolled for them be cause teachers in 35 districts refused to work without a contract. Aware that a state law bans teacher strikes, both the Michigan Education Association, an affiliate of the N.E.A., and the A.F.L.C.I.O. Michigan Federation of Teachers insist that their members were simply "withholding services...
Purists who insist that kilts are worn by men-and what the other sex wears is pleated skirts-may be upset to learn that the world's biggest manufacturer of kilts sells them strictly to females...