Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale. I'm not embarrassed by it, but I am shocked by the level to which people talk about it." While Buschbacher denies tooting his own horn, he will occasionally mention his rhino-like feature in conversation. "Sometimes when we joke around I say, 'Size matters,' to win an argument. It's a convenient joke." Buschbacher adds that at parties, "It's nice to use as an icebreaker...
...inform women about the benefits of folic acid. While she no longer sits in on West Wing meetings, she makes sure that top members of her staff do. Says one: "She has two or three people who are kind of constantly with us." And they rarely lose an argument...
...Starr wanted his students to understand that a good trial lawyer always argues passionately, even for positions he would reject if he were the judge. So Starr turned his classroom into a moot court and pleaded--of all things--Bill Clinton's most famous court failure: the President's argument that as long as he remained in office, the Constitution immunized him from Paula Jones' civil lawsuit...
Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...
Opponents of hate laws employ a simplistic and misleading argument: "All crimes are hate crimes," says Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who has promised to veto any hate crime legislation that comes before him. No one would dispute his statement. But crimes based on hatred of an individual are different from crimes based on hatred of a whole part of our nation...