Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin analyzed the game in his characteristically cogent style. "From the start we never really got into the game. We never executed. They controlled the tempo...We called two times-outs early...but we were never there mentally...
...been conclusively proven, for the purposes of the class it is correct. This may seen overassertive, but it's not. It gives the students a chance to bring focus into a subject that they would have ignored altogether otherwise. And when the professor sees on all the exams these cogent arguments all in favor of the same viewpoint, he is going to rethink his own presentation. He'll be surprised that his lectures were so conclusive, he didn't realize he felt so strongly, but next year he'll be more explicit. Again, everyone profits...
This bias in written history, especially noticeable in the history of recent, controversial events, makes cogent analysis of complex issues quite difficult: Imagine reading John Reed's The Ten Days That Shook the World without knowing Reed's support for Lenin. Unfortunately the biases of some modern historians are not as well known as those of Reed. Wouldn't people read William Shawcross' book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia--and especially the section where he places the ultimate responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy directly upon the United States--more closely if they knew that he had stated...
...offense suffered from an inability to get off effective shots and passes in front of the opposing net, this year's returning forwards--notably last-year's high scorer, Alex Lightfoot, co-captain Firkins Reed, and senior Sara Fischer--know each other's styles well enough to mount a cogent team attack...
Somewhere here there is a message--the nation's syndicated psychoanalysts quickly diagnosed a shift to the Right. Cogent, even obvious, but incomplete. The 1980 election either represents widespread dissatisfaction with Jimmy Carter (the majority op-ed view) or a near-total realignment of American politics, a conclusion more dour but also more plausible...