Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determination not to commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states with say 100 electoral votes, and Truman was leading in 14 states with 280 electoral votes...
...Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...
...student body because people interested in journalism come from all sorts of backgrounds and have all sorts of opinions. But the CRIMSON functions as an Independent undergraduate organization, like the Dramatic Club or the Lampoon or the Young Republican Club. And the phrase "The Official University Dally" does not contradict this status. It means only that announcements and notices appearing In the CRIMSON are official...
...through the play is a constancy reference to the Bible, quoting passages which contradict each other in supporting and denouncing slavery. But in the end it is a misuse of Scripture that brings on Savior Vesy's end: "All these twelve years," he muses, "I give my people hope with the story of Moses. I never tell them Moses never reach the Promised Land...
...adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...