Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumbling that woke up the 1958 congressional election campaign last week was the sound of short-lived but sharp public argument between the President and Vice President of the U.S. The argument : Is the Administration's handling of foreign policy-and specifically the Quemoy-Matsu crisis-a proper topic for campaign debate? President Eisenhower, even though he agreed with G.O.P. leaders at the White House a fortnight before that foreign policy is one of the campaign's two top issues (the other: the economy), said flatly one day last week that "Foreign policy ought to be kept...
Like Brer Rabbit slapping Tar Baby, Goodie found his hand stuck. Knowland expressed "surprise" at Knight's argument, unveiled a five-year-old letter in which Knight lamented the state legislature's failure to pass a right-to-work...
Everything gets a hearing at the Ec table. Anything goes, from the simplest to the most fantastic, including those radical notions expressed solely for argument's sake which crop up at these gatherings with such devastating consequences. Yet Galbraith was heard to close one particularly gay luncheon with the happy thought that "It is generally understood that the topics raised around this table one year will be on everybody's lips during the next...
...most American universities where there are a multitude of speech courses and an undergraduate major in the subject. But the study of speech could be a beneficial part of many undergraduates' curricula. Courses should be offered in the techniques of group problem-solving, dramatic interpretation, the analysis of argument, mass persuasion, and rhetorical theory...
...assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every day he did the same kind of thing at the same moment; his routine never varied. In character he was stubborn and intolerant, in speech inarticulate, in argument dumb...