Word: demand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bonney was replying to the Young Progressives' domand Sunday that the Navy either abolish its loyalty oath requirement for NROTC students or remove its units from the colleges. He said he does not consider the YP's demand to be of "any importance." He added, "They would probably be the first to join up in the event of a national emergency...
...event that University officials should refuse to make either of those moves, the Progressives will demand total removal of the Navy from the University, Bluestone says...
Some Indonesian editorial snipers blamed the U.S. for everything. Cried the newspaper Nasional: "We demand an integral and undivided independence. But what do we see today? [New Guinea] was pawned for one year . . . America is going to defend itself against Communism, and Indonesia is on its way to be made the place for America's self-defense...
...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...critics of the Sundays, 61-year-old Editor Arthur G. Waters of News of the World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...