Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Webster's spellers and dictionaries, the reign of "purity by prescription" began. On a completely arbitrary appeal to logic, the vigorous "I didn't do nothing" gave way to the weaker "I didn't do anything...
...Reds. They grabbed eleven of the planes and took off for Mao's mainland. Hong Kong authorities announced that British recognition of the Communist government-then expected momentarily-would automatically give the Reds possession of the remaining 71 planes by right of inheritance. It was strange logic, explainable only by Hong Kong's greedy haste to make friends with...
Because Murray had voluntarily postponed the strike, Truman felt himself bound not to invoke the Taft-Hartley law. The argument gained some logic when Murray postponed the strike 80 days while waiting for the WSB decision-an interval which balanced Taft-Hartley's 80-day cooling-off period. (Legally, the argument had no validity at all, as the Supreme Court later pointed out.) But the logic was soon swallowed up in the strange and wonderful performance...
...final curtain, the delegates might have marred the lesson by flubbing the vice-presidential nomination with a futile compromise to "bind up the wounds." They did not flub it. Richard Nixon, progressive fighter against Communism and corruption, fits the logic of the Monday vote, the Wednesday vote, the nominating ballot-and the struggle for victory...
...this final stretch of logic Justice Jackson took violent exception. "No doctrine that the court could promulgate would seem to me more sinister and alarming," he said, "than that a President -whose conduct of foreign affairs is so largely uncontrolled, and often even is unknown, can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the nation's armed forces to some foreign venture...