Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both major parties and thus lacking the usual precinct apparatus, he attracted thousands of volunteers who canvassed the neighborhoods. Accused of arrogance, he went on television to admit mistakes. Charged with being soft on crime, he boasted of his efforts to beef up the police department. To overcome the argument that his policies had encouraged anti-Semitism among black radicals, he went, yarmulke on head, to synagogues to plead his case...
...order line but sounded sympathetic toward the black's problems. They want the U.S. out of Viet Nam but on "honorable" terms. Those, however, were secondary issues compared with the food-tax dispute-Holton favored offsetting the regressive state levy with a rebate-and the Republicans' argument that it was time to make Virginia a two-party state...
...argument became more heated when Larry Kinnard, a black personnel officer hired this fall, came into the room. He cut off several white questioners-saying "let me talk to the sister"-and said that his job was to "watch out for black people" in the personnel office...
...Arafat's flourishing forces in Lebanon can reach the border of Israel, with or without Lebanese accommodation, they will cause trouble for everyone concerned. Last week they provoked argument anew between the U.S. and Russia. For the first time, the Soviets publicly praised the fedayeen, condemned Lebanon and accused the U.S. of provoking the trouble by supporting Israel. Privately, Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Dobrynin told the State Department that Moscow wanted to cool the crisis in Lebanon. Washington, unwilling to accept Moscow's private assurances while the Soviets were scoring public propaganda points, angrily dismissed the Russian...
...Left and revisionist historians have argued in recent years that, in fact, Acheson and Truman fired the opening shots of the cold war, that such a policy as the Truman Doctrine was the equivalent of bombarding Fort Sumter. Acheson is aware of the argument, and like the careful lawyer he is, presents a formidable brief for the defense. Soviet troops had occupied the northern provinces of Iran; to force them out strong American pressure was needed. The Truman Doctrine, which combined military and economic aid, was developed only to counter Soviet designs upon the faltering regimes of Greece and Turkey...