Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin to desert the government as soon as the U.S. pullout became imminent. Saigon already contains varying gradations of neutralists and peace factions. Once it was clear that U.S. forces were leaving, they could gather enough support to topple Thieu?and a new government dominated by neutralists might even insist that the American army, which would then be an unwanted presence, speed its departure. Various parties would no doubt make their own private deals with the enemy...
...attorney held over from the Democratic Administration to try eight of the nation's leading radicals on an anticonspiracy law that may very well be ultimately found unconstitutional. The defendants, who throw kisses at the jury, call the judge a "racist," and fully expect to go to jail, insist that their proper jury is "the peoples of the world." The setting is Richard Daley's Chicago, hungry for vindication but now targeted for the same sort of demonstrations that disrupted the Democratic Convention...
...months, confounding reports from Moscow that he had suffered a serious stroke. Japanese newsmen and British diplomats emphasized that, at 75, he seemed in excellent health. For the time being, that put to rest doubts about whether Mao was still around-except among Moscow sources, who insist that he has at least two doubles...
...requirements and at the same time answer serious theological objections. Though the Clark formula is clear, critics have argued that objectivity is difficult to realize in practice. Most religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, "is worse than not reading...
...choice of five vinyl roof colors, plus 16 body colors, and 33 sets of interior trim. All that contributes to the more than $2 billion that Detroit is spending to bring out its new models, and denies auto plants the economies of long production runs of identical cars. Automen insist that they are only giving the public what it wants. Nobody wants to revert to the marketing philosophy that the buyer can have a car in any color so long as it is black. But quite a few buyers might be willing to settle for less choice in return...