Word: contradicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal of the film, however, does not rest solely on a fine performance or lively drama. Despite its confused, mysterious overtones, Miss Bronte's novel is drawn along clear, simple lines. Her characters, once their secrets are uncovered, are easy to understand and she leaves no loose ends to contradict all that has gone before. In the end, rewards and punishments are dispensed in a manner which would have pleased even Job, and Miss Bronte's justice, if fanciful, is at least attractive...
...Truman circulated the report that the former President--with the advice and connivance of FBI Chief J. Edger Hoover--allowed White's promotion in order not to tip off the Soviet spy apparatus and allow the FBI to collect more evidence. The story sounded plausible and Truman did not contradict it. But Hoover...
...advantages in an insurance program, however, contradict the department's stand. Insuring the players would guarantee that all medical expanses would be paid. Under current HAA policy, accidents must be paid for by parents, or if the student cannot afford treatment, by a special University fund. It is not only difficult, but unfair, to separate those who can afford medical treatment from those who cannot. Every man who plays football for his House deserves the benefits of an insurance plan...
...Snark, whose assertion was that what he said three times was true, but he can relate anything in the world to anything else, and spin such long-chain molecules of thought that professors to whom a house is a house would rather maintain a purse-lipped reserve than openly contradict...
...persons "whose political, social, economic and philosophical outlook differs from the beliefs and sentiments of many American citizens." Americans must put up with that fact, said the lawyers. All such employees are obliged, however, to abide by the laws of their host country, even if some of those laws contradict their own beliefs and sentiments...