Word: factualism
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...Congress, after all but abandoning legislation in favor of investigation, had once again become a legislative body. Public debate, after remaining for years at the level of a mudslinging exchange of personal accusations, had once again become reasoned and sober and factual...
...tribute to the U.N founders was sober and factual: "That there have been failures in attempts to solve international difficulties by the principles of the U.N. charter, none can deny. That there have been victories, only the wilfully blind can fail to see. But clear it is that without the United Nations the failures would still have been written as failures into history. And, certainly, without this organization the victories could not have been achieved; instead, they might well have been recorded as human disasters. These, the world has been spared...
...students. Indeed, during the last war Karpovich took over the whole direction of History 1, and he still recalls the experience with an intellectual shudder. An incredibly broad survey that covered all history from the fall of Rome to the present, the course required a tremendous amount of factual knowledge from its lecturer and moved at a prodigious rate of speed. "Students used to say that if you looked out the window you could miss the French Revolution," Karpovich recalls...
...Supreme Court is not concerned with the factual evidence about Dr. Peters' loyalty. Instead, all argument revolved around the federal loyalty program and procedures which had found him wanting. His lawyer, Thurman Arnold, charged that Dr. Peters' constitutional right to trial by due process was violated because-as in all federal loyalty proceedings-he could not see the secret
...when Fulton Lewis got ready for his first visit to Spain, he looked forward to a royal welcome and an exclusive interview with Franco. He was not disappointed by the welcome. The day before his arrival last week, Madrid's daily Ya said: "Fulton Lewis, the succinct and factual American journalist, tomorrow arrives in Madrid . . . If you encounter him in your walks you should take off your hat to him. There are not many newspapermen in the world who merit more this unique and supreme gesture of Spanish courtesy." Next day the newspaper headlined his arrival on Page...