Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, in which the figure of the President is shadowed by his brother, who wields strong police power, and by his tiny sister-in-law-who holds no office at all. At the battlefront, both U.S. military observers and the Vietnamese brass blandly tell the newsmen stories that blatantly contradict evidence obvious to the journalists' eyes. In Saigon, the ruling family is reserved, aloof, openly hostile; it does not trust the Western correspondents-and does not trouble to hide its feelings...
Thus, the Rules Relating to College Studies does not contradict itself when it states that "the Department of Economics will accept no concentrators in combined fields" and elsewhere says in regard to Soc Rel that "some students may want to focus their work on a particular topic or theme that requires considerable work in a related field. For example, the study of social problems in underdeveloped countries might call for substantial work in Economics....Students wishing to pursue an interdisciplinary tutorial of this kind will be required to take five full courses in Social Relations and two full courses, directly...
...United States is condemned to something like a Gaullist Europe,...a continuation of the present organization of the Six with more consultation among the governments. America's choice is between this and disrupting the Six altogether." Hoffmann added that the latter course would contradict the basic aims of all post-war American foreign policy...
...with decimation of numbers and prestige, no one is paying any attention to its plight. It is convinced that the country is willing to abandon it to the fury of the second industrial revolution, and there is almost nothing in the government's record during the last decade to contradict it. The union is acting out of desperation, not spite...
...magic realism in which, as Politzer writes, "clefts and crags open to reveal depths beyond realistic detail." In breathless, frightened prose, Kafka built his ambivalent fears into ambiguities that empty the spirit. His heroes endure events that seem to mirror their experience, but in fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured...