Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complains that the Administration does not really know its own mind. "It's my Administration," he says. "It's a Republican Administration. I want to get along with them. But they don't seem to want to understand the issue. They haven't advanced one cogent argument against the principles of the resolution...
Despite the last-minute nervousness, the West knows what it wants at Berlin. A cogent State Department memorandum to U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe put the objectives roughly as follows: ¶ To reach agreement on a free, unified Germany, and thus open the way to a general European settlement. ¶ Failing that, to establish that U.S. proposals represent the only means of reestablishing a free, united Germany. ¶ To show that Western proposals on Germany form part of a program which takes into account security requirements of all Europe, and the Soviet Union too. ¶ To throw light on Soviet...
...presidential fireside chat is not an institution in France; but Vincent Auriol, impelled by the gravity of the hour, took to the radio last week with a few cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend...
...Council regarding the showing of movies during the coming year. This agreement was reached at a meeting called by the Student Council and presided over by the Council's president, Paul Sheats. Because I do not believe any of the arguments in the editorial to be either cogent or valid, I will reply briefly...
...king-size brands, Chesterfield was able to get 1? more for its king by proving it costs more to make. As a result, in spite of the higher cost, the extra penny gives Liggett & Myers an estimated additional profit margin (before taxes) of ¼? per package. This was a cogent reason why other makers, despite denials, might follow Chesterfield's lead in "kinging" their top brands. And what the move emphasized most was the growing popularity of long cigarettes, whose share of the total market has zoomed from 9% in 1950 to about 16% this year, while sales...