Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. Twenty or 30 years ago, many American friends visited us [the Chinese Communists] and exchanged views in a free way. Now that we have gained state power it may be thought that our views have become rigid. This is not the case. We will persist only in the correct things. Where we can improve, we will listen...
...order has ever run in more conventional outlets. The tactic has drawn some grumbles from within the order, but Father Lupo says: "I wanted to reach college guys and to get the most mileage for my advertising dollar." It remains to be seen whether the Playboy recruits-if they persist in their interest-will gladly embrace one of the most austere of priestly disciplines: celibacy. ¶ For observant Jews, the term kosher applies not only to what foods may be eaten and when, but to the methods used in the preparation of food and the slaughter of animals. Kashrut (dietary...
...Witt still has plenty of disadvantages. The cats so far have not much impressed the bandicoots, which occasionally scamper across Jane's face at night and persist in digging up the vegetable seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously...
...above 7% in the second and third years of long-term contracts signed before the August freeze. Getting such boosts approved has been a prime goal of labor members, who have been ready from the start to scuttle the controls-if they could get away with it. If businessmen persist in this challenge, labor members could possibly quit the board. In that unfortunate event, the President might have to go directly to the people and seek to rally public opinion against the willful actions of some labor leaders...
...Princeton's newly admitted female undergraduates tried to expand campus awareness of "female sensitivity" by invading a male student's room and slashing his collection of 40 Playboy pinups. (A faculty-student board put the slashers on probation.) At Harvard, women are complaining to faculty members who persist in beginning lectures to mixed groups of Harvard and Radcliffe students with "Good morning, gentlemen." Activists at the University of Oregon are trying to make departments change the symbolically objectionable titles of courses like "Man and His Environment." to "The Human Environment." Stanford women are taking non-credit courses...