Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep out of foreign entanglements." The Omaha World Herald slyly demolished that classic argument by predicting: "Washington's words about foreign alliances . . . will be as dead as his warning against the formation of political parties...
...Philip Bahn '49 began the home argument by stating that "there was no other way to get autonomy in 1776 or 1783" than outright revolution. There was no such thing as Dominion status then, he said, and America would not have become a great nation if it was not set "free of British restrictions" on industry and expansion...
Denzil K. Freeth, opening the British argument "that it would have been better for mankind if the American revolutionaries had stopped short of separation," said in his serious moments that Hitler would not have started World War II if the U.S. had not been a "semi-isolationist, independent" power that the Axis couud count...
This time an adroit and determined Southern minority had contrived the battle so that it became merely an argument over rules, and not over civil rights. After 160 years of parliamentary practice, the Senate found itself hopelessly entangled in its own procedures, unable to agree on the rules under which it conducted its disagreements...
Funds are derived from a 12% social security levy on payrolls, half contributed by employees and half by employers. Patients may choose any doctor. Doctors merely sign forms with which patients claim reimbursement from their insurance. By now an ingrained habit, the principle of health insurance is beyond political argument...