Word: gainsay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could gainsay Mark McGwire. Nor could we have invented him: he was that close to perfect. He assaulted the most textured record in the most apposite sport--the sport closest to the American bone and yet most in need of a rehabilitation of the spirit. McGwire built steadily toward his moment, through 11 seasons marked by astonishing accomplishment and devastating failure. He remained at once focused on his goal and joyful in its pursuit, during which he embraced his closest rival. He never bragged, never proclaimed that he was the great white hope or the straw that stirred the drink...
...liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also be a mean, drunken galoot doesn't gainsay that...
...That's up to physicians, and nobody can gainsay what doctors say. It all boils down to the integrity of the doctors. This is what people are afraid of. They don't really trust their doctors, and I can see why. They have made a mess of their profession...
Unlike these parents, Hart did not get the point of the flier. While trying to gainsay the allegation that there exists a PC conspiracy here (one, in fact, we never made, because conspiracy connotes a collusion which we have not witnessed yet), Hart maintains that the flier itself is a child of the complicity of Harvard conservatives. The flier belongs to Sumner and me alone, something the handout states at its bottom. But, as her article demonstrates, classification and consequent dismissal is easier than refutation...
...action would promptly be "escorted back to a rear unit and, as soon as possible, back to Dhahran." Many Americans would like to believe that the Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield but in the headlines. The Pentagon denies it shares that view, but its actions gainsay its words...