Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southworth, who will soon publish a book on newspaper coverage of the bombing, told an audience of about 20 at the Faculty Club that the governments of France and England made no attempt to contradict reports that the Republican forces in Spain had burned down their own city--reports the governments knew to be false...
...Beatriz without innocence, more a Coppelia than a New Eve with her shoulders drooping and her tinge of petulance. She is as at her best at the end as she gulps from a silver vial that is supposed to redeem her poisonous blood--even though it seems to contradict her intent in the preceding speech...
...cross-cultural social analysis of self-affirmed male homosexuals in Denmark, Holland and America, Martin Weinberg and Colin Williams (1974) accumulated a considerable amount of interesting data. Much of their evidence tends to contradict popular stereotypes...
...discussing "Reasoning in Sociobiology," Wilson asserts that "good theory is testable" and "falsifiable." However, The Sociobiology Study Group has shown that the above are examples of an "advocacy method" that "guarantees that no observation can contradict the theory...
...archaic severity, like the votive dolls found in 3rd century tombs in what had been the Chinese kingdom of Ch'u. Still other pieces, such as the 13th century Chinese figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan-Yin, have extraordinary, almost liquid grace and animation that seem to contradict the graininess and density of the wood itself...