Word: persists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearing that the scanty raiment would cause raised eyebrows in 'Cliffe bluenose circles, Eve stated that she will appear in a more seemly, if less sightly, Grecian tunic. While some male members of the production claim that the tunic idea would tax the local cloth supply, others still persist that she will actually appear in regulation Gardon of Eden greenery when the curtain rises Tuesday...
...been destroyed. Most of its people will live, for all the rest of this generation, in misery and fear. They are becoming creatures of despair or apathy or desperation. If the First Atomic War then follows to keep the Communists from unifying the Continent, the desolation will persist for many generations. And if the riches of America are finally exhausted in that struggle, the America we know can hardly survive...
...them a free and prosperous nation in which to live and work. The mentally and physically sound veteran asks no more than a fair opportunity to reach the position in American society for which his talents qualify him. If self-seeking "grabbers," like the bonus marchers from the Ozarks, persist in their demands, many conscientious ex-servicemen may be shamed into renouncing the title "veteran" for a simple, less exclusive "citizen...
...Jones's boys, cocky little Bobby Riggs, insisted on taking money beyond expenses for amateur tennis-the unforgivable sin in Jones's eyes. "If you persist in this sort of thing, you're on your own," warned Jones. "Okay," said Bobby, "I'm on my own." He became national pro champion...
When the war began, admits Dr. Meyer Maskin of New York in the current issue of Psychiatry, "psychiatrists were both pretentious and ingenuous in their claims." The war taught them a new humility. Confesses Maskin: "Psychiatry has little or nothing to offer to surcharging men to fight or to persist indefinitely in the anxiety frustration and monotony of contemporary wars. It has developed no effective field method" for cutting down neuroses...