Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what really accounts for whatever lingering esteem there may be for Jimmy Hoffa is' the image of him as a dedicated labor leader. Sure, the argument runs, Hoffa is tough, rough, and he pals with crooks; but at least it can be said for him that i) unlike Beck, he is not interested in making money for himself, and 2) unlike Beck, he is devoted to the interests of rank-and-file workers. The record, which Jimmy Hoffa says speaks for itself, explodes both of these notions as myths...
...Khrushchev is convinced that the U.S.S.R. is militarily more powerful than the U.S. Since no argument to the contrary is likely to get through to him, the best basis for U.S. debate is to convince him that in any war, both sides would turn out the loser. The worst thing the U.S. can do is to show signs of jitters over Soviet military threats...
...people across the extraordinary gap of class distinction that separates the Communist hierarchy from the people. Communist leadership in general has failed to develop any enthusiasm or support for the system itself; this lack of enthusiasm does not promise incipient revolution, but does promise minds receptive to logical Western argument...
Liston is one of 25 children born to an Arkansas farmer and his two wives. At twelve, Liston had an argument with his father, ran away to live with his mother in St. Louis. He later landed in jail after helping to hold up a restaurant. There Liston learned to read, met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. Liston studied Joe Louis' My Life Story by the hour, soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...