Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Presnail's point is one that has long stumped the experts. Many of them contend that the whole field should be called from the catcher's point of view. Just as many more insist that the batter's stance is an exception and can be rightly viewed only from the pitcher...
...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...
...fact remains that Hollywood's taste buds, like those of any industry, are necessarily conditioned by earnings & profits. For these, the cinemoguls insist, glamor in the well-known shapes of male & female stars is basic, fundamental, utterly essential and sometimes colossal...
...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
...however, some 800,000 Negroes practicing the rites, the vast majority of them in what are known as Prince Hall Grand Lodges. At least two Negro lodges, one in New Jersey, and one in Massachusetts, can lay claim to the legitimacy of their charters; the others, white Masons insist, are "clandestine" lodges, neither bona fide nor legitimate...