Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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House for All. Drafting a constitution for a Western German state at the suggestion of the Western powers was an act of political courage. The Communist argument that a Western German government would split the nation has been losing ground ever since the Russians laid brutal siege to Berlin. Westphalia's Minister President Karl Arnold spoke of the Germans now under Russian domination: "We must be sure that what we construct will some day be a good house for all Germans...
Tossing on his canopied bed in his crenelated castle, Prince Vittorio spent sleepless nights, sweating with worry. Later he said that he worked out this argument: "If we live in a capitalist world, that land is ours because it has belonged to my family and Arsoli for generations. If we live in a Christian state and the capital takes water from us, it should at least not let us starve." The young prince remembered that his family includes two Popes-St. Anastasius (died 401) who denounced the Origenist heresy, and St. Pasquale (died 824) who stood up to the Frankish...
This summer, at the eight-day meeting of the Lenin Academy, Lysenko rose to insist on his views once again. Several scientists, including Professor Zhebrak, tried to start the old argument. It was then that Lysenko sprang his big surprise: his theory had been officially endorsed by the Central Committee...
What was happening at Amsterdam last week? New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam called it "continuous and creative cooperation of 145 churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...
...straining the reservoir of U.S. transport planes, it has bolstered the industry's argument that the Government should share the mounting cost of pioneering new transport types. By getting an average eight-hours-per-day out of each of its 192 planes, it has proved what oldtimers like Eddie Rickenbacker have long preached: that the more a plane is used, the better performance it gives. Said Airlift Boss Lieut. General Curtis LeMay last week: "Leave a plane on the ground and it starts deteriorating. But keep it in the air, with regular maintenance, and it thrives on steady...