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Word: contradicted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organized it. If a situation called for a revolution ary expert, Che knew how it had been done in Bolivia or Guatemala. Through the long evenings, without ever appearing to contradict, Che encouraged Castro's leftism, planted the seeds of a deep-cutting and basic grab for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro's Brain | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...found a man dressed in unspeakable rags, and so thin that his ribs seemed about to burst out of his skin. His boss, Farmer Abraham Kolkman, 72, curtly explained that Bally was nearly deaf and blind, volunteered to sign the pension papers himself. Then suddenly Bally spoke up to contradict his master for the first time in 50 long years. "I can sign my name," he said. "It's my money." And that very night he ran away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Hired Man | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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