Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Desai government It seems to me they are without direction, which is very dangerous. Also, they contradict each other quite often. They are so preoccupied with finding the guilty that they have no time to do what has to be done. Everything that has happened during the emergency is happening now without the legal sanction of a constitutional emergency-arrests, press controls, everything. I would not use the word dictatorship because it has been bandied about far too much. But if my rule was a dictatorship, then this is a dictatorship...
...fact, Nixon has never seen this transcript. (After the session, he asked his aides: "What was that tape? I'm sure I never heard that tape before. Find out about that tape." They immediately tried to locate a transcript in Washington.) The two Colson tapes, of course, contradict Nixon's assertion that he first learned of the cover-up on March 21. They unsettle Nixon...
These findings, says Myers, contradict a recent Rand Corp. study (TIME, June 21) that suggested some alcoholics could safely return to moderate drinking. He points out that even after nine months of abstention the rats preferred alcohol over water. This strongly bolsters his suspicion that alcoholism is due not to social conditioning-as the Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help...
Continued American presence would contradict the goals of the Ethiopian socialist revolution and its non-aligned foreign policy, government officials announced...
Indefatigable Romantic. Terkel's prime failing is his unwillingness to contradict-or entertain a critical thought -about anyone who was nice enough to spend time with him. He listens rhapsodically as British Director Joan Littlewood says, "I'm sick to death of all these silly old political and social and educational systems which have got in the way of human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic...