The father who once insisted his son was just being a boy had come to accept him as a boy with a problem.

These were fighting words to be coming from a country that once insisted Europe needed Turkey and was willing to spill blood over it.

They once insisted on fixed wages and annual raises, setting pay standards in the process for many nonunion workers, too.

Now the former polemicist had reappeared - the man who once insisted, "All the art of the past must be destroyed."

He once insisted that families should use only one bar of soap a week.

Dennis once again insists that he is not Brautigan and therefore does not know where any bodies are buried.

Nor is there any link in the treaty to the issue of missile defenses, as Moscow once insisted.

"I have no special talents," he once insisted to his friend Carl Seelig.

A country that once insisted everybody be "American without a hyphen" is now restoring its hyphens.

She never finished high school, but once insisted that cosmetology school would solve her problems.