Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To ask people to remember Vietnam is hardly to call for unwarranted "recriminations," as administration spokesmen have been suggesting in the last few days. If, as they seem to believe, American involvement in Vietnam was an accident, a mistake that unfortunately killed hundreds of thousands of people without achieving a...
In a series of premonitory events, John D. Rockefeller gave presents of expensive bicycles to close associates, and lady cyclists abandoned their acres of crinoline for "rational clothing." H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw could be seen atop their new machines, and Scientific American soberly announced that "as a social...
But university officials held the line. Whether or not Hornig kept his budget a purely rational affair, and not a political one--as maintained repeatedly during two months of give-and-take--he succeeded in satisfying students without compromising his original budget priorities.
The cars once could get an intelligent man over ground in a calculated way at a high rate of speed, and the contest between man and road was like a living sport--taking place within the framework of his working, necessary life. Not in an artificial arena like the tennis...
In large measure the refugee tide could not be explained in such rational terms. "It was hard to say what started it," said a Catholic priest who had escaped from one of the suddenly lost provinces of South Viet Nam, "but panic set off panic." The flight seemed to overtake...