Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous was the momentum of the Red drive that at any moment the retreat could become a rout. By all rules of war and logic the Red Army needed time to rest, replenish supplies, restore communications. But it might well have reserves of hidden strength enabling it to press its attack without a respite...
...blacklisting of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the District of Mzensk in 1936. The close connection in the Soviet mind between musical and political technique will probably never be completely fathomed by non-Russians. But looked at by Russians, the downfall of Lady Macbeth had a certain logic about...
...friend, met him with bluster: "You're going against the laws of God. My grandfather's cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
...Iowa, farmers refused the tests. They argued: If a cow eats garlic, it shows up within half an hour in the cow's milk; surely the tuberculin injection would contaminate the milk. John Mohler pleaded the logic of science, finally won out. He ran 232,000,000 tests, slaughtered 3,800,000 tuberculous cows...
...Corio, long the "Most Beautiful Girl in Burlesque," and now a cinemactress, explained with high logic why she had always stripped down to "lingerie or panties" rather than the classic G-string: "If a girl takes off her clothes, you don't expect to see her in a rhinestone G-string with fringe and tassels...