Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western diplomacy to date is concerned, Mr. Dulles deserves praise for preventing his own blunders from pushing the West over the brink of both the canal and war. When Britain and France were threatening military action, Dulles stepped in with a strong restraining hand and cogent pleas for negotiation and flexibility and international control. Thankfully, Dulles realized what had to be done...
...free to do ridiculous things. She can play with life much more because she is mature of heart. She isn't stopped because other people are not doing it. She drives to Mexico alone. If something appeals to the mature person, if there is no really cogent reason for not doing it, let us do it, let us not be bound by hidebound convention...
...Masters were still "studying" the question in the fall of 1951, when suddenly an uncomfortably cogent argument drifted up from New Haven. Yale, it seemed, had extended its upperclass parietal hours to 11 p.m. on all Saturdays, and had found the new rule working "better than we expected." Reminded that the Connecticut university had been founded "in protest against the liberalism of Harvard," and encouraged by the reduced demands of undergraduates here for 11 p.m. instead of midnight permissions, the Masters at last saw their chance to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. parietal hours and to compensate by granting...
Your Sept. 5 treatment of the Fifth Amendment issue was a remarkably lucid, informative and objective summary of both sides of the controversy. Lawyer [C. Dickerman] Williams' cogent arguments inject a welcome measure of common sense into an issue so muddled by smears, emotion and innuendo. Why not make such debates a regular feature...
...another section of the poll, which pertained to House selection, those questioned showed that their most cogent reasons for applying to a particular House were friends going to the House, the House reputation, and the House tutorial staff. In response to whether or not freshmen in groups of up to eight ought to be distributed at random among the Houses, the response...