Word: insisted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...novels as lustily and naturally as he hunted a fox-plunging ahead full tilt, changing course where & when he or his quarry pleased, never knowing nor caring what insurmountable fence or un-jumpable ditch might pop up in the next chapter. Inspiration, he was always the first to insist, had nothing to do with it. He got up every morning at 5:30 and wrote with calm assurance until breakfast, after which he took up his duties as a hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough for one book, he simply wrapped...
Segregation. In Milwaukee, Manager Arnold Brumm of the Ritz theater announced that on Monday evenings, to be known henceforth as "Dignity Nights," people who insist on eating peanuts, popcorn or candy during the show will be asked to sit in a special section...
Visitors to Russia who insist on saying "Spasibo" ("Thank you") for services rendered reveal themselves to knowing Russians not only as foreigners but as class enemies. The good Soviet citizen avoids such courtesies. In Russia's October Revolution and the bloody civil war, the Bolsheviks learned that one way to spot an enemy was to listen to his speech. A cultivated diction and politeness were the caste marks of the bourgeoisie; polite speech, like the bourgeoisie, soon went out of fashion...
...daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
When Niles Rumely Newton had her first daughter, Willow, five years ago, she was told that she would not be able to nurse the baby. "It made me so mad,' recalls tall (5 ft. 10 in.), grey-eyed Mrs Newton, "that I insisted on trying it. Anc I succeeded." Since then, Mrs. Newton and her husband, Dr. Michael Newton, a research surgeon at the University oi Pennsylvania School of Medicine, have been interested in the problems and processes of breast feeding. In the current issue of Pediatrics, they insist that many mothers who bottle-feed their babies could breast...