Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed hard to believe that so bland and salve-like a substance as oleomargarine could have set off so abrasive a row. As the House debated repeal of federal oleo taxes last week, party lines snapped like serpentin in a gale; the sulphurous debate grew reminiscent of argument in a waterfront saloon. But there was a good reason. Congress holds few subjects more sacred than 1) American womanhood and 2) American cows. Oleo had forced an awful choice between them...
...come to the defense of his colleagues who were cited for contempt of Congress last fall after they had refused to answer specific questions put to them by the Thomas Committee. In his book, The Case Against Hollywood, Kahn lets his resentment get the better of him. His argument suffers the consequences...
...argument over whether public-opinion polls are good or bad for a democracy has become somewhat academic -they are obviously here to stay. They can find out what the people, who rule a democracy, think and want. But a democracy also needs leadership by men who must frequently tell the people why a popular notion-no matter how widely held-can be wrong...
Criticized on the grounds that he "writes to himself" in his war poetry, Ciardi frankly admits it. "Poetry has to deal with the immediate," he says, defending his method with the argument that every serviceman was thinking of the same things in personal terms. "There was more collective consciousness in the Army than in any other group," and yet, he admits a little ruefully, "you still can't reach across to anybody else...
...surest way for a U.S. visitor in Canada to start an argument is to ask a Canadian: "Why don't you come into a customs union with us?" A customs union, or some kind of economic union between the two countries, has been mooted off & on for 99 years.* Now ERP and Canada's increasingly close economic ties with the U.S. have made it a very live issue...