Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Brown's denial, rumors persist that he is very much in consideration...
...reported to the U.N. Economic and Social Council last week. "The postwar backlog of demand for goods and services in the industrialized countries has been in large part satisfied. And the critical shortages which plagued efforts to rebuild and expand industrial capacity have generally been overcome. Although inflationary pressures persist, inflation has to some extent subsided...
...this reason, the debate is serving none but an obstructive purpose. If they persist in it, the Senators will weaken their strong moral case against anti-civil rights filibusters by turning themselves into the pots which call the kettle black. The Senators should let the tidelands bill pass, knowing that as soon as the electorate wakes up there will be votes enough to repeal it. If they stop now, they can then continue their fight to end the archaic institution of the filibuster without the tinge of political hypocrisy...
...Owen, who years ago dubbed Swaffer "the Pope of Fleet Street," recalled the first sentence of Swaffer's verbal autobiography: "I was born in 1879, as was Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Camrose, Lady Astor, Joseph Stalin. What a vintage year!" Replied Hannen Swaffer: "You may wonder why I still persist in going to the office every day. Without that I should...
...have offended any one for whom no offense was intended," he said, "then it is to that group [that] . . . I owe an apology . . . My critical remarks . . . were leveled at an element or group in the medical profession who have not served in the armed forces and who persist in contending that their unwillingness to serve is [because] the service is not attractive enough for them...