Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer who talks with people like this finds it hard to know how to react. As Pitzele has said, "it is difficult to decide whether to contradict the patient, suggest that he means something else, or pretend to believe the statements and continue the conversation on that basis. As most volunteers are considerably younger than the average patients, they are reluctant flatly to contradict the patients' statements--a discourtesy in any case--although it seems impossible to agree. I think that an all too frequent reaction is to try turning preposterous statement into jokes and to leave it at that...
...current issue of The Reporter shows, and as one of the Committee workers who prepared the film has admitted, Operation Abolition presents a grossly distorted picture of the San Francisco demonstrations, by judicious juxtaposition of incidents that occurred hours apart, by deft cutting, by statements in the narration that contradict the word of the local police...
...market of predictions that Democratic Candidate John F. Kennedy will be elected. Some analysts believe that the market's recent slide was caused by the spreading belief that Kennedy will win and will bring on more inflation by stepping up Government spending. This reasoning seemed to contradict the market's recent history, where fear of inflation has helped send stocks up since they are considered one of the best hedges against it. But brokers had an answer to this paradox; they argued that inflation sends the market up only when there is a prospect that earnings and dividends...
Holland's claim of impossible competition for talent and his assertion that admissions procedures are eliminating creative students contradict one another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying the poorer schools potentially eminent graduates. Admissions procedures that eliminate the creative student are hardly unique to this group of universities, but Holland has chosen to level these unrelated charges solely against them. Over-emphasis on preparation is a prevalent evil, but it has nothing to do with concentration...
...unsatisfactory, evasive, shamefaced answers of parents and teachers." In eight weeks, nearly half a million people have seen Mein Kampf in West Germany. (It is also set for distribution in East Germany.) Audiences, in the main, consist of people under 40, and the popularity of the film tends to contradict the notion that West Germans are unwilling to concern themselves with the facts of the Hitler...