Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhee's speech did not persuade, it at least impressed. Its impact came from the realistic logic of the essential world situation, stripped of diversionary details. There are weighty objections to Rhee's plan, but its general argument is difficult to dispute: there will be no better time than the present to take the offensive against Communism, and no better place than Asia. Those who did not like the specifics of Rhee's proposal were faced by this speech with the requirement of finding other specifics that fitted the hard logic of his general theme...
...Speaker Thomas Reed changed all that one wild day in 1890 by counting members present, although they sat mutely in their chairs when their names were called. Shouted a Kentuckian named McCreary, "I deny the right of the Speaker to count me present." "Czar" Reed shot back with devastating logic, "The Chair simply stated the fact that the gentleman from Kentucky appears to be present. Does he deny it?" With that, members bolted for the doors. Reed ordered the doors locked. Pandemonium gripped the House of Representatives as members hid under desks, shouted curses at Reed and beat down...
...wrestled with an odd sort of problem. The class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which can result in various strategies...
Mendès himself thinks he will probably not last a full year, and may go down much sooner. "But by that time the logic of Mendès' views will be clear to the country," explains a disciple earnestly. "There may be dissolution and new elections, or we may have to wait longer. But people will see to it that Mendès-France eventually gets back...
...House passed it, 62 to 1, Representative Wilkins of Mobile, not quite convinced by the bill and the logic of its backers, was the only Alabama legislator to vote against...