Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponent of repeal hastens to add that he is against Fascism and all its works whereas he has patently adopted a know-nothing, believe-nothing attitude toward the perils of Fascism, feeling that to do so may save him from the perils of war. With emotion thus muddled, Congressional argument grew equally...
...Tulsa, Okla., two Negro youths contested police testimony that they had been swimming nude in a park. Their argument: it was nine-thirty of a moonless night, and besides they wore black trunks...
...been expressed by Harvard's Jerome D. Greene in a Boston Herald article notable for its logic and calm. Had this article been written some two decades ago, it might very well have been taken for an utterance, likewise reasonable and collected, of Woodrow Wilson. The specific line of argument and the names mentioned may differ. But the broad sentiments outlined, the implications drawn, and finally the social myths preached are identical...
...made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made it clearer: "His Majesty's Government do not think a declaration of war on Russia follows automatically as a matter of good faith on the invasion of Poland...
Said the New York Daily Worker: "The people of Poland . . . realize the firm position of the Soviet Union in uncompromising pendence." support for (The their London freedom Daily and inde Worker used the same argument, even the same language, in praising Stalin's "uncompromising firmness" with Hitler.) The New Masses ran a series of parallel columns contrasting life in the Soviet Union with life in Nazi Germany...