Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magazine Concept." For having broken a station rule against editorializing, Newscaster Legoff was promptly fired. His dismissal was scarcely an adequate answer to his argument, but answers did come from all sides. No one maintained that TV or the pop music business had a monopoly on shady practices; as the Christian Century pointed out, neither the press nor other media could afford to feel complacent...
...that the brutish-looking Neanderthalers may have vanished because the wearing of clothes (or animal skins) shifted attention from muscular development to facial beauty. Finding no such refinements in members of their own race, Langner suggests, beauty-conscious Neanderthalers may have mated with other, more comely dawn men. This argument violates the Wart Hog Principle; one Neanderthaler probably looked just dandy to another...
...unions' most paradoxical argument is that changes in the present rules would actually cost the railroads more than they claim they could save. Railroad workers, whose wages average $2.47 an hour, are paid less than workers in many major U.S. industries. If roads paid overtime, differentials for nightwork. severance pay and other benefits, say the unions, it would cost them $648 million more a year...
...real argument against featherbedding-from any point of view-is that the practice is killing off business just when struggling U.S. roads need every dollar they can get. Booms Daniel Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The central issue is simply whether this industry or any industry so beset by rising competition can long survive under work rules that exact millions in pay for work not done or needed...
Diary of Anne Frank. A brilliant argument for human dignity...