Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considering how the situation might be remedied, he said that "If you insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
...hirsute adornment of bare masculine legs by Harvard men while sipping tea in the refined atmosphere of an elite Harvard Square tea shoppe. According to them the atmosphere of their favorite afternoon rendez-vous is destroyed by half-dressed athletes and, with appropriate modesty and blushes, they insist that hairy nether limbs be confined to the gymnasium or, in this case, to the squash court...
...apartment in a low grade quarter of the city where Senator-suspect Vare has absolute political control. Testifying last week, Mr. Beck said: "It's an honest residence. . . . For one who tries at every opportunity to interest the people in the Constitution, God forbid that I should insist on any departure from it!" The Committee continued pondering the honesty of Mr. Beck's residence...
...environment has led them to adopt a pastoral, nomadic form of existence and has shaped many of their beliefs and customs; and the Polynesians and the Melanesians, to show how their environment has stimulated them in the art of navigation. The policy of this series will be not to insist on the compulsory character of environment, but rather on its suggestive character; its ability to furnish opportunities which may or may not be taken, and its ability to forbid certain features...
...enforcement, he said. "I speak only the truth when I say that the people of any locality get the degree of law enforcement upon which they insist and for which they are willing to pay. . . ." He said he was and would be willing to "remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...