Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved on without it." In place of that rigid discipline, nations have built up flexible disciplines better suited to control the ups and downs of the complex modern world, such as the International Monetary Fund. Opponents of return to the standard of a quarter of a century ago insist that the U.S. is already as near to a gold standard as necessary, since gold still backs up its currency, and its dollar can be converted into gold by foreign governments and central banks...
...Gang's All Here. Although the authors (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick...
...luggage space-only 15.6 cu. ft. in the Corvair v. 24.5 cu. ft. for the Falcon and 24.9 cu. ft. for the Valiant. (But the Corvair has an optional folding rear seat, for $32.50 extra, that provides another 13.3 cu. ft. of luggage room in the back.) Many engineers insist that a rear engine is not practical on the basis of present knowledge for cars of more than 2,800 Ibs. (Corvair's weight: 2,375 Ibs.). G.M.'s forthcoming Buick and Oldsmobile compacts, which will be bigger than the Corvair, will have front engines...
Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...
...ambulance attendant says that the frightened boys told him only that Swanson had "a spasm in his throat," never mentioned the meat, which he could easily have removed. A fire department resuscitator squad that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...