Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more in 1928 and then, after the stock-market crash in 1929, held out for what seemed to be a stupendous salary: $80,000. He was counseled against the move by a sportswriter whose principal argument was that President Herbert Hoover was only making $75,000. With irrefutable logic, Ruth replied, "Yeah, but I had a better year than...
...implicit electoral mandate for peace. Instead of ending the war as they had promised they continued it for four more long hard years, doubling American casualties, murdering hundreds of thousands more with bombs and napalm, devastating previously untouched areas of Indochina, gaining nothing -- even by their own perverted logic -- by the prolongation of the agony...
...however, memory rather than logic will probably be the decisive factor. If the Indochina horrors are only dimly recollected by current Harvard students--eighth graders at the height of the American intervention--the Right's arguments may carry the day. If, however, America's war crimes have not lost their stark, searing vividness, ROTC will once again be turned down. In some sense, the dispute's outcome hinges on when the Class of '77 stopped reading Batman and started reading about MyLai...
...Germany is turning away from Europe." West German Chancellor Willy Brandt attempted to cool the exchange, dismissing Chirac's remarks as the mutterings of a low-level official. But some of the Chancellor's colleagues have privately retaliated, charging that "the French are suffering from gaps of logic...
Still, there were many loose ends, and what made Kim's disappearance puzzling was its total lack of logic, even from Park's viewing stand. Despite his showing in the 1971 elections, Kim has never been a serious threat to Park, and any injury to him by Park's agents can only tarnish the dictator's already smudgy image abroad. So illogical did the whole affair seem, indeed, that some thought the snatch might be the work of North Korea, out to damage the reputation of Park. Whatever the motives, 100 Japanese policemen were assigned...