Word: retractment
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...Goldsborough blustered that in rewriting the Banking Bill as it passed the House, Senator Glass and his subcommittee had been dominated by sinister "influences"-namely "Wall Street" and "the great New York bankers." Four of the six Senate conferees promptly refused to sit with him until he should retract his slur. Thereupon Representative Goldsborough uprose in the House, crawfished as follows: "Of course I was discussing issues and not personalities. ... I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the high patriotism, absolute integrity and high purpose of any member of the United States Senate...
...Judge Wilson at rights with the country after your false statement, for which you have not a scintilla of fact, had presented him to the nation as an intemperate and im- proper person to be United States Judge. It would have been far better, Mr. Secretary, if you would retract your own libel of Judge Wilson and put your own house in order before intruding your unwelcome person into purely legislative matters. . . . You have the effrontery to tell me in the legislative branch how to conduct a fair hearing when you don't even know the definition...
...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
...good") had not appeased the catfight that broke out fortnight ago in his "Government of Appeasement" (TIME, July 30). "Liars! Forgers!" hissed ambitious Conservative Minister André Tardieu, charging the Radical Socialists with complicity in the Stavisky Scandal. "Liar! Cabinet-wrecker!" snarled Radical Socialist Minister Edouard Herriot. "Retract! Resign!" howled both...
...vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon me with a petition asking me to retract the state ments I had made with regard to their native city. . . ." It did not take him long to learn to refer to "The War Between the States...