Word: persist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Briston Sullivan. J.B. Sullivan has purchased this option on the land, and would undoubtedly exercise it if the plan materialized, forcing the MDC to purchase the area from him if the industrialization project were approved. It is an open question whether Mr. Sullivan's civic spirit will persist when it comes to setting the price at which the MDC will have...
...which had to choose between party symbols, such as "the bullocks" and "the oil lamp," because most of its members could not read. Leaders of the young new nations would probably agree that freedom is a risky venture, more, so than they once recognized, and that their worst problems persist after the imperialists get out. Yet who among them would want to abandon their independence...
Egypt (pop. 22,500,000). The vast ant heap of Soviet equipment received by Nasser surprised the Israelis, the English and French. Nasser believed that he could take Russian help without becoming a prisoner of the Communists, was obviously too cocksure. But signs persist that he is still nervous about becoming too dependent on the Russians...
...Going steady" is an "occasion of sin," and students who persist in doing so will be barred from "any position of leadership or honor," the principal warned students at St. Mary's Roman Catholic coeducational high school in Lynn, Mass. "The only serious reason which would justify going steady is the hope of marriage in the near future. This reason should be absolutely nonexistent for any high-school student." Said The Pilot, organ of the archdiocese of Boston: "A forthright and, we may hope, decisive treatment...
...payroll. "I cannot and will not sacrifice my own integrity and self-respect on the altar of economic security," he said. "Dr. Coggins has been severely persecuted and tormented, and the health department has collapsed. Practice the kind of Christianity you profess and rescind your action now! If you persist in this action, God pity...