Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even such Isolationist ostriches as Ohio's Senator Robert Taft admitted that there could be no fight against the logic of fully training the half-trained U.S. Army. By now General Marshall had smashed all the way to the one-yard line. The President decided to go in himself, and carry the ball over for the touchdown...
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week. There was a strong hint (from Steve Early) that the White House meant to put the whole thing off till next fall. Strategy: by then the cost of living would have gone so high that an angry consumer lobby might be organized to override the Friends of Inflation. But by then also, inflation will be at least a partial fact...
...which they wished both sides would lose-but not too soon. It was a troubling experience for those who rejoiced when Nazis smacked into Russia, out of hatred of Communism -but who worried to see how hard they smacked; and for those who could see the logic of U.S. aid to Russia, since Russia was the weaker of two well-hated dictatorships-but gagged at the thought of a Russian victory...
...Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...
...opening sentence, with its dangling participle, was an offense against grammar. As he continued, Hitler committed many an offense against logic and the world's credulity. He ended with an offense against the God in whom he does not believe: "May God help us especially in this fight...