Word: gainsay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly, if we had been defeated ... we should have had some difficulty in justifying Hiroshima. . . . There needs to be a consistency between the law of the judges and the conduct...
...Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing embrace...
Well, who said they ate an apple? Surely not the Bible. The Bible simply says it was "fruit of the tree." So the wizards at the flower show can guess again if they like, for nobody who knows the Bible will gainsay them...
...around the world in grimmest headlines. Not so under the New Order. To Rome it was "a victory of Axis policy which reveals to the world its true constructive character, its clarifying, its civilizing spirit." As to that, there was some argument, particularly in Rumania, but no one could gainsay the Axis victory. When Russia began the dismemberment of Rumania last June, the small but tough Hungarian Army was poised on the edge of Transylvania...