Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors. No one knows just how many cases there are, since many of these discharges were made, often capriciously, for a wide array of reasons to get rid of unwanted soldiers. Some of the war-resister groups insist there were about 700,000 veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and that all should have those records cleansed. Yet among them are many -very likely a majority-whose discharges were based on bad conduct, even criminal acts, totally unrelated to any philosophical objection...
...must remind the nation and its institutions that Congress was not colorblind when it enacted the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution. We must insist that the country recognize that the United States Supreme Court was talking about Black people and racial discrimination when it pronounced the Brown decision...
...appears that the government has heeded complaints of corporations that insist they just can't find qualified minorities to hire," Laura Liffsey '78 of the TFAA said last night...
...aristocrat, adopting the "de" before his pseudonym and wearing a monocle. Yet Irving traces his origins back to a Budapest ghetto, where deHory started life as Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
Soweto's blacks insist that the death toll in their township alone last June was at least 350, or more than double the official toll of 168. (The government now admits that most of the officially dead were shot in the back.) Dozens of students are still detained under draconian security laws, and at least 1,000 others face trial on such catchall charges as causing public violence. Perhaps another 1,000 students, fearing further police pressure in the form of post-midnight security sweeps, have fled South Africa for neighboring Botswana and Swaziland...