Word: retractment
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...Kinsley says. In his own essay Kinsley says he gently ribbed his religious background and discovered to his horror that a member of his committee was what he calls "a real holy-roller type." They brought Kinsley back, and the active church-goer asked him if he wished to retract his comment about religion. Kinsley says he was in rather a quandary, because he could not decide whether to make the man happy or stick by the reference, which, after all, he hadn't really taken seriously when he wrote it. But he decided that he should be "manly...
...pressured to retire last year because of his unyielding cold war stance. From 1955 to 1973, Angleton was in charge of the mail program. He told the committee that the operation was especially useful because the Soviets did not realize it was going on. Angleton refused to retract a statement he had made earlier in closed session: "It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt orders of Government." Certainly Angleton had not done so. He conceded that it was an error to examine the mail of Nixon or a person...
...Kirchner, much less "deeply" so. In fact, I have known and respected Mr. Kirchner as an individual as well as a professional musician since that time, I have talked to Mr. Straus, since reading his article, and he tells me that he does not feel it necessary to retract the statement that "I deeply resent Mr. Kirchner" because he has a right to his impression. I will refrain from giving my "impression" of Mr. Straus's intelligence and reparative ability on the grounds that it might be libelous...
...report is as negative as the sources indicate, then the library corporation will either have to retract its statements or pack its bags and look elsewhere...
...depended on our making some sort of protest. I saw that the only way out was to present the United States with an ultimatum: the Americans would have to apologize officially for sending their spy plane into the U.S.S.R., and the President of the United States would have to retract what he said about America's "right" to conduct reconnaissance over our territory...