Word: persists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibits that they become exhausted trying to pick and choose. Those who determinedly set out to see all the sights are apt to call it quits ten exhibits and a few blisters later, discouraged by large lines at some attractions and meager offerings at others. Even if they persist, the price is high. If a family of four were to follow Moses' commandment and push through the turnstiles seven days in a row at $2.50 a head, it would be a $70 bite in the family budget, without allowing for a simple bite into a Belgian waffle or American...
...girl, "I'm going to count one, two, three, and your eyes will close and you'll go into a relaxed state," and she promptly went into a trance. Spiegel told her that her left forearm would become paralyzed and numb, arid that this condition would persist, even after she "came to," until he touched her elbow. When he ended the trance, the girl remained rooted before the receiver, her left arm numb and inert. After the usual wait for a hospital elevator, Spiegel walked into the laboratory and touched her elbow. Only then did she regain sensation...
...Speechwriter Richard Goodwin: "I want it to be very clear that this is a vote for my policy in Viet Nam." When the message went to Capitol Hill, it read: "This is not a routine appropriation. For each member of Congress who supports this request is also voting to persist in our effort to halt Communist aggression in South Viet...
...self-defense"; she is thus incapable of protecting other countries militarily from Communist aggression or infiltration. Furthermore, because numerous types of credit must be offered in exporting to these non-industrialized countries, trade is often difficult to engineer. And, in spite of racial and cultural affinities, bitter memories persist of Japanese exploitation and military control in World...
...Malaysia's ambassador to the United Nations then told the same forum that his country would continue to ask "active assistance" from Great Britain as long as "the Indonesians persist in their policy of agression, subversion, and outright military intervention...