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Word: logical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dollars-and-cents logic is irrelevant when discussing the willful termination of human life [July 4]. The taxpayer has spoken. I will no longer be an accomplice to murder. More money for contraception, not I e more for abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1977 | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...band of youths swooped in like vultures and made off with the prize. A teen-age girl on Manhattan's upper West Side complained to friends that some boys had offered to help carry away clothes and radios, then had stolen them from her. Said she, with the skewed logic of the looters: "That's just not right. They shouldn't have done that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: NIGHT OF TERROR | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...rough, there's a request for an extension." Republican Charles Percy asked whether Lance's pronouncements on bank prime rates involved the "appearance of possible conflict of interest" and attempted to bore in further. But Georgia's Sam Nunn interjected: "How far can you extend this logic? There's no place in the world where he can put his money where it won't be affected by his decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Going to Bat for Beleaguered Bert | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...there is a nuclear war? These questions are especially important because, according to present strategy, close to 60% of the U.S. nuclear megatonnage will be carried by manned bombers, the rest by missiles based on land and aboard submarines. Concedes Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, a B-l backer: "Considerable logic can be mustered for either side of the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: B-1 v. B-52: the Strategic Factors | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...than a legitimate response to the Communist threat) with a long series of attacks on Hellman's own conduct during the '50s. In a long and turgid footnote, Trilling implies over and over that Hellman was a communist, and that HUAC was therefore completely justified in its witchhunt. The logic is shaky, at best...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Feet Don't Fail Me Now | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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