Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...Russians under 50 knew enough about the world outside Russia to see the wild nonsense of Stalin's comparison. Stalin, who is 66 and had a political education before the night closed on Russia 29 years ago, knew that no Soviet citizen would contradict...
...Ernie Bevin's philosophy, liberty and socialism do not contradict each other. His early poverty had led him to prize economic security above economic opportunity. Britain's waning power after two wars persuaded Bevin and his countrymen that sovereignty must be bent to fit a pattern of world order. They knew also that UNO could not be built on a foundation of immoral compromises with expediency. As Britain's ancient strength declined, its ancient principles must take, at least in part, the place of power...
...world in which dollars are provided only on commercial loan terms. They also profess to want a world in which international trade moves freely between the countries without such wartime obstructions as exchange controls, license restrictions and discriminations. Now clearly they cannot have both, for the two aspirations contradict each other...
...Norman Somers told the court that if the letter were not judged an act of contempt, NLRB was "about to . throw in the sponge." Retorted Judge Charles Alvin Jones: "Where is the prohibition against a man saying he doesn't like a labor organization?" He proceeded to contradict the common understanding of the Wagner Act's ban on free speech for employers...