Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarreling liberal septuagenarians united briefly last year under General Humberto Delgado (now in Brazilian exile), recently asked official permission to hold a congress to select an "alternate" government should one be needed soon. Salazar refused their request and went before television cameras at week's end to insist that the great mass of the Portuguese people are behind him. But reports of his imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected ex-President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, known as "The Man Who Never Smiles...
...government decides not to wait out that slim prospect, the R.C.A.F. is ready with three choices of aircraft, narrowed from an international list: Grumman's F11F-1F Super Tiger, Republic's F-105 Thunderchief and France's Dassault Mirage III. Whatever the choice, Ottawa would insist that Toronto's idle Avro plant be licensed to make it in Canada...
Nevertheless, some critics insist that buying a mutual fund is just buying a piece of the Dow-Jones industrial average, point out that the top five common stock funds just kept pace with the averages in the seven-year bull market. But Broker Arthur Weisenberger, the Boswell of the industry, whose brokerage house puts out the definitive yearbook of the funds, argues that an investor could pick a slow mover even in the stocks in the blue-chip Dow-Jones averages. Only 14 of the 30 stocks have done as well as the 229% gain in the averages...
...showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...