Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orders that Calley and Mitchell will claim they obeyed. No one has yet produced records specifying Charlie Company's mission on March 16, 1968. What Calley's orders were that day may not be known until his lawyers present his case in court and others corroborate or contradict his claims. One of the contradictors might well be Captain Ernest Medina, the company commander, who has not been charged and thus may testify for the prosecution that he gave no unlawful orders, and that Calley misinterpreted those that were given. If Medina is charged, his lawyers might...
...would crack down even harder on dissent. Like most of his comrades-in-arms, he is convinced that only the military knows what is best for Brazil and its 90 million people. "There must be freedom," he said earlier this year, "but there can be no license to contradict the political desires of the nation...
...such an atmosphere, research on counter-insurgency warfare would contradict the general consensus, and its purposes would be critically examined...
Cross-examining in the afternoon, defense attorney William M. Kunstler quoted Pierson's testimony before a grand jury and the House Un-American Activities Committee to contradict his testimony today. After pressing for details of how Pierson got involved with Rubin. Kunstler asked for a recess to finish reading prosecution evidence...
Well, I hate to contradict old Nate right off the bat like this, but as usual, he hasn't got things quite right. A lot has changed here at Harvard since that momentous autumn when Mr. Pusey, doing his damnest to sound like a second-rate Fitzgerald narrator, first suffered unnoticed through a freshman bull session. And although the Freshman Yard, with its predominantly WASP administration, still smacks of a snobbishly genteel Harvard, the incoming freshman can rest assured that his first struggle with the Union's compost-like tapioca will not be interrupted by quick repartee at Katherine Mansfield...