Word: recant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes after an unfortunate guest has fallen into a fit of hysterics as a result of such rough treatment, The Collector may recant a bit and satisfy himself with mere lectures on his favorite subject. He has very definite theories on the care and reclaiming of antique discs including a process of re-shellacking which probably exceeds the plans for assembling the atomic bomb in intricacy. This study even goes into such details as the difference in the spacing of numbers on Victor chain labels of the 1931 period and in his eyes a record of this vintage which...
...appears that the loudest applause was reserved for the various verbal lashings dealt the Senator, by everyone eventually, even Cousin Roy. Yet it would have been quite consistent with the earlier portrayal of the old Bourbon if he had been led to recant his bigotry. But one failing more irksome on reflection than apparent on sight, is perhaps a symptom of the in growth of prejudice, in this instance to the very actors, or the director. A strained match between Howard and Alice seems to be justification enough for several chilly kisses, while the warm and central love between Nevvy...
...tense and troubled meeting, Aneurin Bevan refused to recant. He argued that if he were bounced, 15 other Laborites who sided with him would also have to go. All over Britain, he warned, labor unions were rising against tough, truculent Ernie Bevin's Defense Regulation IAA (five years in prison for strike fomenters...
...said Galileo after the Inquisition had forced him, under threat of torture, to recant his assertion that the earth moves round the sun. The words are apocryphal, but the story lives...
...failing. Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped frightfully. The isolationists were being supported enthusiastically by the nation's largest newspaper chains (Hearst and Scripps-Howard-although Roy Howard began to recant last week -see p. 59); by the nation's largest single newspapers (New York Dally News, Chicago Tribune); by huge, well-heeled lobbies (America First Committee, scores of others). Their Senate numbers grew slightly, and their leaders were daisy-fresh and whip-smart. Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled...