Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symptoms. One minute she kicks her husband (Richard Conte) out of bed; the next she asks him with a pathetic whine why he always wants to sleep alone. "Look at me," she wails. "I'm a big fat cow." But she is furious when her husband does not contradict her. She is even madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that day. One morning her husband finds her sweeping...
...Lombardi's new institution fills a gap between individual spiritual exercises and large discussion meetings. It takes groups by categories. Priests come together without any overseeing bishop. "It too often happens." says Lombardi, "that at congresses a priest in awe of a bishop won't dare to contradict him. Or if we have a group of bishops, we have no onlooking priests so that bishops need not feel they have to be constrained in what they say or leave unsaid. We get this homogeneous group and bathe it in a supranatural atmosphere...
However, there were soon others to contradict these points of view. William Barrett, formerly of Partisan Review, questioned the idea of freedom somewhat when he claimed that "the poets belong to the Little Magazine; they have no place else...
...intercontinental bombers that can fly at twice the speed of sound at such altitude that the pilots can see the Milky Way at high noon. It is Pat Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions in a vast military machine. And it is the duty of Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure that the machine-in all its countless...
...acceptance of these proposals by the Faculty and Administration would be more than endorsement of Faculty control of what should be a student-directed activity. It would also contradict the principle of diversified education by encouraging students interested in theatrical productions to overspecialize...