Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony Eden flew into Bangkok annoyed and disappointed with Secretary of State Dulles. Dulles' New York speech, carrying a U.S. pledge to defend the offshore islands if they were invaded as part of an assault on Formosa, seemed to flatly contradict Eden's hopes that Dulles was coming to agree that the islands should be given up. In Britain, while Eden was aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson...
...here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict him, you're out. Even the top creators at the studio have to be careful. Nothing is really funny until it's proclaimed funny...
Collins' forthright declaration at once set off characteristic trepidations in Saigon, Paris and Washington. Saigon's Journal d'Extrème Orient tartly reminded Collins that "the French government will not accept the least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...
...controversial policy motion, offered by Political Actin Chairman Christopher Niebuhr '56, would have pledged the H.L.U. not to contradict the official policies adopted by the state wide A.D.A. organization to endorse only those candidates for whom it actually intended to work, and to refrain from working for any candidates not endorsed by the state A.D.A. The latter provision would have automatically prevented any debate at all on a question like the endorsement of Furcolo, since the state organization has declined to support...
...that they assume a downright metaphysical importance. The postulate goes this way: All minds must have an equal chance at the start. They are like fertile fields; all that needs to be done is to sow them with method and prevent their differences from growing more marked, since differences contradict the principle of fundamental equality of all brains...