Word: retraction
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...scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters of Southern Baptist churches in Rainelle, W. Va., Phoenix, Ariz., Greensboro, N.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. One clergyman of the Nazarene Baptist Church, W. L. King, who quoted the oath and refused to retract when its fraud was pointed out to him, last week was charged with criminal libel in the magistrate's court at West View...
...embassy and handed Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II a truculent letter. It declared that President Eisenhower's impending visit to Japan, scheduled for June 19, "will only provoke the Japanese people, already infuriated by the passing of the security pact." Mac-Arthur retorted with a demand that Asa numa retract his widely ballyhooed statements that "the U.S. is the common enemy of China and Japan." "Not the American people," cried Asanuma. "American imperialism!" What was the difference? "Mr. Asanuma was unable to make any clear distinction," observed MacArthur in a public statement after the meeting. As for Asanuma...
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...