Word: rebut
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...years ago by Bernard Goldfine (TIME, July 21), on which he had neither repaid principal nor been charged interest. Democrats cagily refused to exploit the Goldfine connection publicly, but talked it up privately, managed thereby to set up an issue that Fred Payne could never effectively rebut. Maine politicos estimate that the malodorous Goldfine affair prompted 20,000 Republican steadies to stay home from the polls, provided the margin that let the Democrats win the governorship...
Javits flatly denied the charges of Communist associations and denounced the campaign against him as "vicious." He asked for and got permission to appear before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to rebut the rumors. He will get plenty of support. All last week prominent New York Republicans were flocking to his defense. Said Oswald D. Heck, speaker of the state assembly and close political associate of Tom Dewey: "The statements circulated about [Javits] are ridiculous. I consider him to be one of the best public servants [and] the strongest candidate for the U.S. Senate...
Alarmed by the House committee cuts, the Administration stiffened its resistance to further cuts and summoned NATO's retiring commander, General Alfred Gruenther, to rebut Richards' arguments this week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But prospects of success were poor; in the absence of White House direction, sentiment in both houses is much as Dick Richards crystalized...
...years after his death in a motorcycle crash, a new biography of Lawrence appeared in England, and set off a fury of charge and countercharge. Its respected publisher (Collins) held up publication of the book for 18 months while lawyers checked it, and friends of Lawrence were asked to rebut its accusations. Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, by Novelist Richard Aldington, says without mincing words that, far from being a hero, Lawrence of Arabia was a misbegotten fraud, a perverted charlatan, a pretentious demagogue, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur, a liar and a plain fake. The effect...
...Defense. To rebut this testimony, Lattimore came last week before the McCarran subcommittee with a 50-page statement that bristled with some of the angriest denunciation ever directed by a witness to a congressional inquiry. Lattimore's statement (released to the press before he took the stand) categorically denied that he had ever been a Communist or proCommunist. It minimized his influence on U.S. policymaking and said that actually he stood for containment of Communism, Point Four and peace. It berated the McCarran inquiry as "stacked" against him, accused it of launching "a reign of terror" against U.S. diplomats...