Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty upsetting to the stand-patters. The philosophers who insist that place is only relative, after all, will hall a support. We live in a world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...
...after Fascist bludgeon men had done to death the Socialist Deputy and millionaire Giacomo Matteoti-a deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough to possess himself...
...already too large; and, third, I was opposed to it because, introduced into national politics, we would never as long as it remained the subject of political discussion settle any other issue clearly and emphatically by the judgment of all the people, because some extremes on both sides would insist on thrusting prohibition into the campaign every time there was an election...
...take the trouble to advance them in a book amused some Unitarians, some independent admirers of a man Jesus, who have put by all supernatural elements in Scripture as fictional. They came as a shock only to hardfast fundamentalists of the evangelistic type, like Dr. John Roach Straton, who insist that every phrase in the Bible is "gospel truth," inerrant...
...Explain to each publication to which contracts were awarded that, in return for the advertising one was buying, one would expect, and even insist, that the newspaper would give publicity to one's political campaign...