Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Keyserling's own brand of cautious happiness and the turgid swirl of the argument in general were well illustrated by one exchange with Pennsylvania's loud, lanky G.O.P. Congressman Robert F. Rich...
...hearing entirely. Dr. Nourse, a tall, white-haired man, is an able, middle-of-the-road economist who was once vice president of Washington's Brookings Institution. He skipped nimbly out of town, evidently too horrified by the idea of an anti-inflation bill to get into the argument...
...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
That left the Zeitung in charge of Editor Kendall Foss, with the three-man board looking over his shoulder. Said Foss: "A satisfactory solution." But the argument had hardly helped the paper's prestige. By week's end, the Zeitung's circulation (542,000) had dropped...
Much of the argument between utility companies and the Government concerned timing. The Government could plan-and spend-on a basis of demand ten years hence (and write off some of the losses as "flood control"). The utilities had to restrict their planning to two or three years ahead, to be reasonably sure of their market. One way or the other, it looked as if the U.S. would lick the power shortage, though the debate on how to do it would go on for months...