Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Pork Producers Council is trying to boost consumer interest with former Olympic Figure Skating Champ Peggy Fleming and a $7 million pitch presenting pork as the "other white meat," comparing it favorably with poultry. The National Dairy Board meanwhile is plugging milk, yogurt and cheese for their high content of a vaunted mineral. "Calcium the way nature intended," blare the ads. All-dairy products get to sport a red REAL seal...
...often students seem content to compile information from various sources, to stick it together in a paper, to make some obvious statements about that evidence, and to believe that they have done a good piece of writing," the report says...
...usual in these sad days, filthy lucre is the mother of innovation. The preponderance of American accents in Parliament is yet another cunning British scheme to milk its antiquity for all that it is worth. Not content with turning the entire country into its meager conception of a tourist's paradise, England has gone it one better and changed its government to suit the times. Penury again is the cause of change...
Ever since the Hitler diary scandal of 1983, scholars have been leery of late-surfacing relics from the Third Reich. But academicians seem to agree that these diaries are authentic. Goebbels is known to have kept meticulous journals, and the content jibes with existing historical records. Forensic tests have turned up no evidence of fraud. Still, some details are unexpected. In an entry from 1929, Goebbels frets that "Hitler is too soft, he doesn't work enough," and is concerned that Germany's future leader may do "too much womanizing." Another entry suggests that the burning of the Reichstag...
...Atlanta sidestepped the issue of whether secular humanism is a religion. Even assuming that it were a religion, wrote Appellate Judge Frank Johnson Jr., the plaintiffs had failed to show that the books promoted secular humanism. The information in the books, Johnson argued, was "essentially neutral in its religious content." Hand had also maintained that the history and social studies texts had been drained of virtually all mentions of the role of religion in society. That may be true, Johnson & responded, but it did not constitute "an advancement of secular humanism or an active hostility toward theistic religion...