Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the only organization I've ever seen which can contradict itself within five minutes," commented John F. Maher '60, main advocate of the presence of a quorum...
Catherine, who survived her husband by two years, bore him eight children. In many ways he was a child to her too, and she was protective about him. One dinner guest who differed with William on the subject of opium felt a note smuggled into his hand: "Do not contradict the Prime Minister." But when "England's voice," speaking through Gladstone, went on too long and Catherine felt that the pumped-out moment had arrived, she could be firm about cutting him off. Once she hurled a phrase at him that is the measure of the woman: "Oh, William...
Explanations. At Kempten, Platoon Leader Julitz' immediate superior, who had watched the troops enter the river, explained why he had not countermanded Julitz' order: "He had the same rank as I, and I didn't want to contradict him. My fears were for the possible damage to uniforms and boots. I didn't think for a moment that the life and health of the soldiers was endangered...
...forbid you to contradict...
...Contradict yourself, in order to live. You must remain broken up," wrote Lewis in 1917. His contempt for the sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...