Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Harris tried to retract his resignation, but the bishop would hear no more of it. Going down to Surrey last week, he locked the doors of St. Andrew's and called a meeting of 120 parish leaders in the parish mother church, All Saints. When everyone was assembled, the bishop barred the doors to Harris sympathizers, gave his audience an angry lecture. For 20 minutes he thundered of "lawlessness and disloyalty" and "doctrines that undermined the position of the Church of England," to the accompaniment of noisy rattlings on the doors...
...partisan days, Actor Fritz Weaver glinted with the self-possessed fury of a man who is supremely confident that he is right and his party wrong. One effective sequence: Djilas standing before the rapid-fire bursts of invective from his friends-turned-enemies, then answering: "I will not retract a word of what I have said or written...
...issued a communiqué declaring that the air force could no longer take responsibility for the government's actions. To a regime held together only by armed services unity, this was real trouble, and Aramburu acted quickly. He fired Krause. and the other officers were persuaded to retract the communiqu...
Aisner did, however, return the Times-Republican books after reading his report to a well-attended meeting of the Planning Committee and new Times-Republican counsel Robert C. Hagopian. He did not retract the $500 bill he had presented for services...
Prosperity, the Washington experts were finding out last week, is something like a wife. If you tell her she is beautiful, she glows. But if you tell her that she should pat here and retract there to keep her beauty enduring, she breaks into tears, convinced that she is sagging all over...