Word: persists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be just dandy if the Japs persist in their battle technique demonstrated at Attu Island (TIME, July 5), viz. killing themselves rather than surrendering...
...restore rewards for risk-taking (those who risk create the jobs); 2) restoration of competition to the "fullest possible extent"; 3) a solution for the special problems of small businesses which have found it "too tough to be born, even tougher to stay alive"; 4) recognition that "those who persist in thinking as isolationists are headed down a blind alley...
...learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
...Tories. If they persist in a "do-nothing" attitude, England may go through her most serious political crisis since 1911. British progressives have their first real domestic issue of the war, are determined to press it, and are solidly supported by the people. The Tory M.P.'s and their "two hundred percent fit" leader can either pass the Beveridge Plan and outrage their consciences, or reject it and anger their constituents...
...housewives and economists worry about shortages of foods, the Agricultural Marketing Administration maintains its favorite fiction-the surplus commodities list. Army and Lend-Lease needs leave only wheat as a real surplus, but the surplus buying and food-stamp plan devised in the depression to keep up prices still persist...