Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a real organization, and it is on a war footing 24 hours a day," said a top NORAD officer last week. "But we have our troubles. If you even ask a simple question, such as who is in charge of the defense of North America, the argument starts." Another officer described NORAD more simply: "A monstrosity...
...shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s, in a classic argument used by shady ladies everywhere, that to close red-light districts would be to make respectable women prey to "sex-starved people like bachelors, widowers and the like...
Over at the H.A.A. that morning some voices were raised against embarking on a journey which appeared so unlikely to result in a baseball game. But the counsels of higher officials prevailed. Their argument apparently went roughly as follows...
During the first U.S. observance of Law Day last week, American Bar Association President Charles Rhyne appeared at Duke University, made a strong argument for a world rule of law. "War with Russia," said the A.B.A.'s Rhyne (TIME, May 5), "is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise unless a formula or mechanism can be developed to maintain peace other than through arms." That being the stark fact, Rhyne suggested that it was high time for the U.S. State Department under International Lawyer John Foster Dulles to set up a new section staffed with experts to concentrate...
...intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right on the beam; others are wildly exaggerated. President Eisenhower shot a thinly veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that...