Word: recant
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...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...
...such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant, for he is betrayed. It not, the Professor giving the course must feel very flattered. THERSITES