Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand there is a big gap. It is always a slow, upward ramp. We'll have a lot of work on technique," Barnaby cautions. But he is quick to insist that he's looking to win--soon. "I hate that phrase 'building years,'" Barnaby says, condemning two words heard often on the Harvard sports scene of late...
...while Barry, Runyan and Bill Sanders--the manager of International Seafoods--readily insist that their laborers are paid, church member Joy Irving said in 1977 that church members working for International Seafoods were "volunteering their services" for the good of the whole in a system which she described as "theocratic socialism...
Mondale's loyalists have fought back by citing instances in which their man advised against Carter policies but lost. They insist he opposed the decision to let U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young resign, argued for the retention of HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and criticized the call for resignations of all Cabinet and senior White House staff members in July...
Celebrated outlaws are also perpetual sources of popular revisionism. While the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid purported to document conclusively that the two bank-robbing adventurers died during a fling in Bolivia, some Wild West buffs insist to this day that Butch beat it back to the U.S. around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood...
...past few months, though, Cuba has been campaigning aggressively both to seize the leadership of the movement and to steer its political direction squarely into the orbit of its principal ally, the Soviet Union. Cuban delegates insist there is a "natural alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the "socialist world," meaning the Soviet bloc. In Havana the pro-Soviet drive can probably count on the support of such far-flung fellow Marxist regimes as Angola, which still harbors Cuban troops on its territory; Afghanistan, which relies on Soviet assistance to stave off an Islamic insurgency; and Viet Nam, which...