Word: speciousness
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Some may try to excuse this glaring inconsistency by pointing out that Russian chess players hardly constitute a menace to the nation, and such specious use of the "national interest" loophole is harmless. While true, this reasoning hardly justifies the contrast, for under the Act's provisions men as safe as any pawn-pusher and many times more worthy are refused entry by the score...
...course of the specious, New York Giants Coach Steve Owen deplored the Ivy League's ban on post-season participation, because it kept players out of the East-West Shrine Game, a benefit staged in San Francisco for a local crippled children's hospital...
...lenient privileges state their case fully. If they believe that women do not belong in the Houses at any time, if they believe that undergraduates are too puerile to be trusted in matters social and personal, students have a right to know why. Offering a factually empty and doctrinely specious argument is no substitute for fulfilling this right...
...there are occasional moments of passionate feeling that almost give dignity to generally unpleasant revelations. Mark Elliott, who had merely been looking for a mistress, soon found himself swamped by a monsoon of the heart. Said he: "I had wanted something beyond the figments of reality, beyond the specious solidity of this rock-bottom world. A steady, passionate flame. A singlehearted ecstasy. And now it has happened . . . everything has come alive, every moment a shooting star." And Han, somewhat more composed: "Whatever happens now, I cannot be too sad. Sadness is so ungrateful when this has been given." There...
...gross oversimplification. He has accused the Republicans of advocating military weakness; yet there has been no more persistent advocate of a realistic arms program than Henry Cabot Lodge, to whom Ike owes his nominations. Stevenson claims that corruption in government is primarily the fault of the voters. Such specious reasoning is not forthrightness. His argument will be true only if the voters endorse the corrupt administration at the polls...