Word: recant
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...Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would sway him. "My conscience is captive to the Word of God," he told the court. "I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither honest nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen...
Harold Wilson was on the spot. None of the mild economic sanctions he had imposed seemed to be having the desired effect of forcing Smith's regime to topple or recant. Demanding faster results, 35 delegates from the often divided Organization of African Unity met in Addis Ababa three weeks ago and passed a resolution calling on its members to break off diplomatic relations with Britain on Dec. 15 unless Wilson brought Smith to heel. The demand seemed pointless and futile enough; nonetheless when the date fell due, six nations acted...
...vice versa. Galileo stayed silent 16 years, then reasserted his view more strongly than ever in his Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems. In one of the world's most famous trials, the Roman Inquisition charged Galileo with heresy, threatened him with torture, and forced him to recant. His Dialogue was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, and Galileo lived under house arrest and a revolving sun until his death...
...only mentioned historical facts about Stalin's purges and labor camps. When he offered to present proof, the court refused to hear his evidence on the grounds that "no fresh slanders against the Soviet Union will be permitted." In his final statement, Mihajlov said he would not recant what he had written and added that if the court condemned his writings, "then it means that it condemns history and would define what can and cannot be said in history...
Promptly the police obtained retractions from a majority of the signers, but Wankowicz was one of a dozen who refused to recant. Then suddenly, on the night of Oct. 5, he was arrested. Chief evidence produced at his trial was a speech critical of the government that he had written in June; he never delivered it, but had allegedly sent a copy to his daughter in Washington. Under a decree dating back to the Stalin era, Wankowicz was sentenced to three years in prison. The judge cut the sentence in half because of a recent amnesty and allowed...