Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arnold suggested that the Government should either have provided Dr. Peters and all loyalty suspects with the protection of trial court procedures, or else simply fired them offhand with no public hearings and no public disgrace. "Is it your point," asked new Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, pinpointing the paradox, "that having set its hand at the plow in choosing a hearing method, the Government is then stuck with a due process hearing, and nothing short of a due process hearing?" Replied Arnold: "I wish I had said it that briefly. That is precisely my point...
Citing what he termed a "curious paradox," O'Brian said that the government's security program "instead of promoting a sense of security among our citizens has spread doubt, suspicion, and mistrust and a sense of insecurity among those in government service...
Science, speaking in its usual language of paradox, has spent most of the last century revealing terror in the tiny things of life. The germ theory of disease probably drove to the grave a lot of genteel old ladies ignored by the streptococcus. By the time mankind grew accustomed to bacillae, American physicists sent some explosive atoms to Hiroshima, giving the world a new source of frenzy. With his new Atoms for Peace, David O. Woodbury has at last sought out the scientists who are working with peaceable, tractable atoms, making significant discoveries that have largely escaped journalistic attention...
...summer seminar, he recalls the "moving and pathetic" there days at Hiroshima. "It was hard explaining," he recalls, "why you take their guns and ships and tanks away and then five years later you urge them to rearm. It just seemed inconsistent." Perhaps he was thinking of this paradox when he later wrote for The Atlantic: ". . . vast segments of our people are . . . devouring treatises on peace of mind, when everbody knows there is no peace...
...rather a paradox," Whitlock continued, "that as we make improvements to the Dudley facilities, more students move into the Houses...