All 9 Uses
controversy
in
Profiles in Courage
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- Long before those discouraging months in the Senate when his mail was filled with abuse from the Massachusetts Federalists, long before he had even entered the Senate, he had noted in his diary the dangers that confronted a Puritan entering politics: "I feel strong temptation to plunge into political controversy," he had written, "but ....a politician in this country must be the man of a party.†
Chpt 1.2controversy = disagreement
- Although illness in the family had prevented him from arriving in time to vote on ratification of President Jefferson's treaty for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, he promptly aroused a storm of controversy by becoming the only Federalist to support that precedent-shattering acquisition actively on the floor and to vote for an $11 million appropriation to effectuate it.†
Chpt 1.2
- But the seams of compromise were bursting by 1850, as vast new territories acquired by the Mexican War accelerated the pace of the slavery controversy.†
Chpt 2.0 *
- But as he talked with Southern leaders and observed "the condition of the country, I thought the inevitable consequences of leaving the existing controversies unadjusted would be Civil War."†
Chpt 2.3controversies = disagreements
- But he was saddened by the failure of a single other New England Whig to rise to his defense, and he remarked that he was engaged in a controversy in which I have neither a leader nor a follower from among my own immediate friends......I am tired of standing up here, almost alone from Massachusetts, contending for practical measures absolutely essential to the good of the country......For five months ....no one of my colleagues manifested the slightest concurrence in my sentiments......Since the 7th of March there has not been an hour in which I have not felt a crushing weight of anxiety.†
Chpt 2.3controversy = disagreement
- And his own belligerent temperament soon destroyed any hope that Congress might now join hands in carrying out Lincoln's policies of permitting the South to resume its place in the Union with as little delay and controversy as possible.†
Chpt 3.6
- Paying but little heed to the demands of his constituents, he exhausted all available treatises on both sides of the controversy.†
Chpt 3.7
- Years later, Cannon was to say to him: Norris, throughout our bitter controversy, I do not recall a single instance in which you have been unfair.†
Chpt 4.8
- At a press conference, the Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee refused to comment on the subject, stating that he had "his own ideas" on the Nuremberg trials but did not "wish to enter into a controversy with Senator Taft."†
Chpt 4.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(controversy) disagreement -- especially regarding a public issue that arouses strong feelings
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)