Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where indifference to doctrine prevails," Dr. Behnken warned the delegates, "and where men insist on compromises rather than sound agreement in doctrine, termites have been doing their destructive work . . . What Lutheranism needs is not greater and greater numbers at any cost, but a. positive and unflinching loyalty to God's word and the Lutheran confessions...
Your article on Congressman Halleck (R., Ind.) demonstrates what can be done by a man with conviction and know-how in spite of the odds. Let's get behind the President and insist upon fiscal responsibility by our national legislators...
...that kookiness can be more appealing than yesterday's gilded glamour. "It's this togetherness stuff, that's what it is," says Director Elia Kazan. "In the old days, with one or two exceptions, Hollywood girls couldn't be both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses is dedicated to the proposition that the girl next door can also be sexy. They want to keep one eye on the baby and let the other eye rove...
...political challenge has divided undergraduates into two distinct groups: Blissful Indifference, and Ineffective Desperation. No one takes the latter group very seriously. In response to the conservative plea, most students assert simply that "you can't turn back the clock"; in reply to the radical demand, the majority insist that it is dangerous to "upset the applecart." This leaves the potent majority of the Center, the drifting "moderates...
...fact, De Gaulle has forced a change in the philosophy of the Common Market: he is adamantly opposed to giving supranational power to any European organization, economic or political. But his government has scrupulously carried out all its Common Market Treaty obligations, and his ministers insist that they are not "anti-European," but in favor of something called "cooperative unity" the hammering out of common European policies in negotiations between fully sovereign governments...