Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sleeping Syrian. Vishinsky started off by denying that the Security Council was competent to deal with the Berlin issue. For the third time in two days, he repeated the same sledgehammer argument. "There is no blockade of Berlin . . . There is no threat to the peace . . . This fact is ineluctable, indubitable and inescapable . . . Only the Allied Control Council and the Foreign Ministers Council may correctly deal with the problem of Germany . . . If this question is not in relation to Germany, what is it? In the stratosphere? In the clouds? In an ivory tower...
Rhine or Pyrenees? The argument in favor of making friends with Franco was largely military. In case of a war with Russia, top U.S. strategists have long argued, Spanish bases would be important. Spain is the key to the Mediterranean...
Regular Army men, the argument continues, become so hide-bound by their stultified training that they are only useful within the context of their own environment...
...term charge. The fact that patients at Stillman must pay more than the $15, for medicine, special services, and after-hour calls, has always been a chief source of complaint. The committee would make up this loss of revenue by economics in the department. But they miss the stronger argument that the department showed a balance of more than $100,000 in 1946-47, the year they studied. This figure suggests that some of these irritating fees could be abolished...
...thought so was the Equitable Life Assurance Society's Thomas I. Parkinson. Said Parkinson: "Neither banks nor life-insurance companies have any right to expect a guaranteed buyer." Parkinson thought that FRB should let the bonds find their own level in a free market. His argument was that lower bond prices meant higher yields, and higher yields on Treasuries would in turn push up the commercial interest rate. Making credit more expensive, thought Parkinson, would help nip inflation...