Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Clayton's wife, Susan, begged to contradict her husband's explanation for his bow-out as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (he had said her health demanded it). "There's nothing wrong with me," she informed the press, "except 45 years of my husband's 16-hour working day. ... He was terrifically tired. . . ." On top of that, Clayton hinted that he might head the delegation to the World Trade Conference in Havana this month...
...G.O.P. victory in 1948 by "a surprisingly heavy" majority. His press conference answers were short & snappy. Would he run for Vice President? "Who ever runs for Vice President?" What about Columnist Drew Pearson's remarks that Martin was seriously worried about generals-in-politics? "Who ever would contradict Drew?" Has President Truman been consulting or cooperating with Republican leaders? "I hold a fairly important post in Republican councils and I have never been told anything...
...Trick-Shot Artist." Back in the witness chair, Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
...Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among the people: pride in the toughness and hope for the future contradict a superficial annoyance with "queues" and controls and coupons that is becoming almost psychotic. If you're in accord with the aims and methods of the present government, you tend to emphasize the former; the Conservatives feel and talk about the grating annoyances to the exclusion of all else...
...Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th century. A further British loan, according to Washington pollsters, might be acceptable to Congress if the British matched this helping hand with a little self-help in the form of repatriating some of the 100,000 working men who daily contradict British need by their presence in Palestine. With London finally squaring up to the realities of its 1947 Empire, the U. S. State Department might be willing to share the burden of the Palestine problem and a Congress that is already talking Lend-Lease would be a great deal more...