Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billy Joe Aplin, 35, a local fisherman, was shot and killed in an argument on a pier; two Vietnamese brothers were indicted. That night three of the refugees' boats were burned and a home was fire bombed. Most of them fled. Although many Vietnamese have trickled back, the tension persists...
...past six weeks, after one of the longest delays between crime and trial in the history of the federal courts, a jury in Raleigh, N.C., listened to an altogether different story. MacDonald, prosecutors said, had flown into a rage during an argument with Colette and beaten and stabbed her and Kimberly. Then he cold-bloodedly stabbed Kristen in her bed. To hide his crimes, the prosecution charged, MacDonald wrote "Pig" in Colette's blood on the headboard of a bed and then stabbed himself. Last week the jury found MacDonald guilty of second-degree murder in the slayings...
...kind. "Who was the wisest man in the Bible, supposedly?" he asks and answers: "He was King Solomon, of course. Two women claiming the same baby appeared before Solomon, asking him to apply his legendary wisdom to their case. He suggested cutting the baby in two."End of argument. To which the only informed response must...
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...that he had done so. Strauss bluntly laid out his understanding of his role: he had been placed in an intolerable position, and that could never happen again. He insisted that he be allowed to operate more freely. The failure of the mission left Vance and Brzezinski with no argument to make. It was jointly decided that they would recommend to the President that he submit to the U.N. no new resolution on Palestinian rights. Asked by reporters who was in charge of Middle East policy, Vance said tartly, "That remains the responsibility of the Secretary of State...