Word: denials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian nation is to survive, and if the U.N. itself is to be an effective instrument of world peace. An indecisive stand by the free powers or time-consuming debate in the Security Council would represent a major loss to the democracies of the world, as well as a denial of the principles for which they stand...
...present Ambassador to Japan, was elected with 42 votes. After his election, FAO Chief Sen spoke the kindest words about the U.S. that have fallen from Indian lips in a long time. Said he: "The U.S. withdrawal when vic tory was in sight took great courage and self-denial . . We believe the U.S. has taken note of the growing desire on the part of less developed areas to take over the direction of the FAO for a while. Only a great nation with a great heart can have that kind of understanding...
Under the aegis of "prosperity," the Republican party sits complacently promising four more years of the same. The GOP proudly points to neatly balanced columns of figures and shinier cars and silver-plated doorknobs, and defies denial that the horn of plenty is overflowing. Although the Republican boast seems at first justified, when the figures are inspected and the plating is scraped away there remains a clouded picture of deception, illusion, and statistical manipulation...
...Dwight Eisenhower could have brought on a "wide open" presidential nomination only by his own irrevocable withdrawal. And for months Ike had tried to avoid the appearance of dictation by withholding his all-out endorsement of Nixon. The fact: only by an unvarnished turndown of Nixon-in itself a denial of a "wide open" convention-could the President have changed the final results...
...this effort to pierce through outward appearances that brought Rembrandt to his greatest insights in works such as The Denial of St. Peter. To depict the awesome moment, Rembrandt succeeded in portraying the intense inner struggle by relentlessly focusing the servant girl's light on the proud yet suffering features of Peter. In The Bridal Couple, probably painted the year before he died at 63, Rembrandt could still return boldly to another moment of drama for every man, raise it to the level of a welling symbol of devotion, acceptance and proud communion...