Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally won this longstanding argument is Geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko rose to his present eminence by being able to make his science toe the party line. Although Lysenko has gained increasing recognition in Russia, most Western and some Soviet geneticists have regarded his party-line genetics as scientifically naive...
...Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase "Almighty God" be used. The weary Shertok demurred, for fear of offending the United Workers Party. Miss Goldschmidt, however, won the argument and the English translation of the last paragraph begins "With trust in Almighty God, we set our hand to this Declaration...
From the late George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Loewy won a $50,000 bet that he could improve the green & gold package of Lucky Strikes. He finally even persuaded Hill to change it to white (Lucky Strike green went to war) on the argument that since people put cigarettes in their mouths, they like to see them in sanitary-looking containers...
...argument was over Author Greene's intention-and accomplishment. Greene is a Roman Catholic convert, with a convert's intensity: he recently voiced the hope that the Church may be driven underground, to find there a revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...
Ringer. In Washington, William McClaine complained to hospital nurses that he had tripped and chipped his front teeth, conceded, after coughing up a .38-caliber bullet, that there had been an argument over a game of horseshoes...