Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only recently been regained after the recession and since the steel companies had accumulated an inventory sufficient to meet orders for a couple of months. The steel firms have claimed that wage increases would force them to raise prices and have sanctimoniously used anti-inflation sentiment as an argument against such wage increases. A lowering of steel prices, before the strike rather than a threat to raise them afterwards would have proved their sincerity much more effectively and probably would have forced the Union to forego any demands for increases...
...issue of foreign trade that the companies have invoked appears likewise a decoy, since besides the argument against the steel companies on free trade grounds the foreign commerce involved is only a few per cent of total steel trade...
...agitation about Richter-Haaser stemmed from an old argument: Should a pianist try for note-perfect accuracy, as most U.S. pianists do, or should he try, in Artur Rubinstein's phrase, to "pull the listener in by the hair," letting the notes fall where they may? (Wisecracking Virtuoso Rubinstein boasted after one performance that he could play an entire new recital with the notes that had fallen under the piano.) Pianist Richter-Haaser belongs to the hair-pulling, note-dropping school, in the spectacular romantic tradition. His performance last week-Beethoven's "Appassionato," Sonata, Schumann's Fantasy...
Princeton, upholding the affirmative, based its argument on constitutional and sociological grounds. Albet A. Snyder cited Justice Marshall's noted verdict in Gibbons vs. Ogden: "Commerce is more than traffic, it represents all varieties of trade and intercourse...
There actually were only a few incidents when a Russian started an argument with an American. Most conflicts were started by Americans...