Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...
Which is, of course, the central objection to consistency, beyond its comedy, dullness or danger. The consistent mind mocks and distorts life itself, blasphemes and perverts everything in a uni verse that insists on motion. "Myself I may contradict," Montaigne conceded. "The truth...
...help you [politically].' You might as well forget it." Reagan insists that he has instructed his advisers never to consider the vote-getting potential of a decision, and his aides unanimously confirm it. That testimony sounds too self-serving to be swallowed whole, and there have been actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand is a refreshing change from having every issue judged by the Nixon Administration's immortal criterion: How will...
...Jerusalem, the official investigation of the Beirut massacre continued, and once again the commission of inquiry heard testimony that appeared to contradict the previous statements of Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Lieut. Colonel Ze'ev Zeharin, an aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, testified that he was "100% sure" Sharon first spoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, two days before the massacre began, about the plan for Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the Palestinian camps. Sharon had testified that he first broached the subject on the following day. Zeharin also said Eitan had told him that...
...from those interviews he does conduct. Malin says his impressions contradict the widespread feeling that more people are squeezing, that safety cushions are smaller than they were five or 10 years back. He counters suggestions of confusion and concern with tales of the madness affecting his first summer in the director's job--the summer directly following the earliest demonstrations of the turbulent late...