Word: contradicter
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Collins' forthright declaration at once set off characteristic trepidations in Saigon, Paris and Washington. Saigon's Journal d'Extrème Orient tartly reminded Collins that "the French government will not accept the least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...
...controversial policy motion, offered by Political Actin Chairman Christopher Niebuhr '56, would have pledged the H.L.U. not to contradict the official policies adopted by the state wide A.D.A. organization to endorse only those candidates for whom it actually intended to work, and to refrain from working for any candidates not endorsed by the state A.D.A. The latter provision would have automatically prevented any debate at all on a question like the endorsement of Furcolo, since the state organization has declined to support...
...that they assume a downright metaphysical importance. The postulate goes this way: All minds must have an equal chance at the start. They are like fertile fields; all that needs to be done is to sow them with method and prevent their differences from growing more marked, since differences contradict the principle of fundamental equality of all brains...
...House Un-American Activities Committee about the Communist Party membership and activities of Dr. Bernard Peters. A summary of Dr. Oppenheimer's testimony subsequently appeared in a newspaper, the Rochester Times-Union. Dr. Oppenheimer then wrote a letter to that newspaper. The effect of that letter was to contradict the testimony he had given a Congressional committee...
...with a stronger army than the one they started with. Never during the time he was in Korea, says Clark, did the U.N. command have the military means in Korea to win a decision in the field. Since Clark speaks only for May 1952 on, this does not contradict General Van Fleet's claim that a real chance to win existed in 1951 and was passed...