Word: allay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation is understandably frightened by Russia's recent successes with missiles and rockets. Last night the President appeared on television to allay the nation's fears. His success was questionable...
There are those who wonder whether in this advocacy Senator Kennedy is primarily motivated by political ambition. The Senator could easily allay such a base suspicion by advocating also the return of Puerto Rico to the Puerto Ricans, Hawaii to the Hawaiians, and Alaska to the Alaskans. The Virgin Islands...
...solving internal antagonisms," declared Mao, "it may lead to transformation of these antagonisms into antagonisms of the nation-enemy type, as happened in Hungary," where the Communist Party, because it chose "repression instead of persuasion . . . simply disappeared in the matter of a few days." The right way to allay popular unrest, he went on, is to encourage public criticism and then, by means of "persuasion and education," eradicate both the criticism and the mistakes that caused it. "It can even be said," proclaimed Mao, "that small strikes are beneficial because they point to mistakes committed...
...United States sits on this thorny problem, fearing to jeopardize either military adequacy or diplomatic bonds. Secretary Dulles has assured Bonn and Paris that America will not reduce her NATO manpower, thereby attempting to allay the inevitable neutralistic sentiment which would result from such action. But, being committed to nuclear emphasis in its general defense scheme, America is hard put to modify this concept as applied to Western Europe...
...recent growth of Christian Biblical criticism has not helped allay misunderstanding. Moslem scholars see in it only proof that the Christian scriptures are unreliable. The accounts of the Evangelists are, in the Moslem mind, confirmation that the New Testament does not share the validity of the Koran, which was revealed to Mohammed alone. "The assumption is immediate," says Author Cragg. "that because there are four, none of them is valid...