Word: counterfoil
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That these arguments are irrational will change no minds; but rational arguments are clearly not the useful counterfoil. The uncertainty exposed by the Administration's extremely unclear arguments cannot be met with thunders of outraged logic, for the issues are not essentially logical. Unfortunately, the alternative is that the Faculty sit down and discuss the issue with the Council, most unlikely when most regard the student group as combining the worst features of twerp politics and administrative annoyance...
...Society of Tammany was first used as a power instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political counterfoil to Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters...
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