As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

`` I don't understand '', she insisted.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

I know now why the students insisted that I go to Hiroshima even when I told them I didn't want to.

`` They're ugly and I hate them '', the boy insisted.

In an April 1969 letter to Time, Capp insisted, " The students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers — the less than 4 % who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities.

" Love claimed to have been sober as of 2007, and in May 2011, insisted her sobriety, saying: " That's not the way I live anymore.

" When the Frankish bishops still insisted the abbot was wrong in obedience to St. Patrick's canon, he laid the question before the Pope St. Gregory I.

Although Fellini adapted key events from his childhood and adolescence in films such as I Vitelloni ( 1953 ), 8½ ( 1963 ), and Amarcord ( 1973 ), he insisted that such autobiographical memories were inventions: " It is not memory that dominates my films.

" According to Allen "... it is reasonable to assume that John Paul I would not have insisted upon the negative judgment in Humanae Vitae as aggressively and publicly as John Paul II did, and probably would not have treated it as a quasi-infallible teaching.

When the film was released, Snyder reportedly asked how Cagney had so accurately copied his limp, but Cagney himself insisted he had not, having based it on personal observation of other people when they limped: " What I did was very simple.

Once, while riding in a limo on the way to an airport, Moon insisted they return to their hotel, saying, " I forgot something.

The death of Henry's fourth son, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany in 1186 began a new round of disputes, as Henry insisted that he retain the guardianship of the duchy for his unborn grandson Arthur I, Duke of Brittany.

I'd get up in the morning, skate from 7: 00 to 8: 30, go to school, come home at 3: 30, stay on the ice until my mom insisted I come in for dinner, eat in my skates, then go back out until 9: 00.

When Queen Mary insisted upon the importance of education, the Duchess of York commented, " I don't know what she meant.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.

When this occurs, I make the change on the sketch or on the final watercolor -- if I have been working on a full sheet in the field.

I work on a watercolor easel in the field, and frequently resort to a large garden umbrella to protect my eyes from undue strain.

He added `` I think that sometimes in this country we are not aware as we should be of the extraordinary work that is being done in this field ''.

I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

I got on the tractor again and I had to watch the plow closely because the field was drawn across the long hillside and even in that good soil there was a danger of rocks.

I had my back to the corner of the triangular field that pointed towards the house.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

`` In response to your letter, I can in good conscience recommend my son, David, in the field of leadership ''.