Word: allay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinary circumstances, such an outcome would serve to allay fears that the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.) was easing Portugal toward Communism. But these are not ordinary times in Lisbon, and the M.F.A. had made sure in advance that last week's voting would be little more than an opinion poll and an exercise in "political education" for a populace that they do not consider ready for full democracy...
Buttoned Up. Colby believes that he can allay such fears, if the members and staffers of the House and Senate investigating committees now being set up to look into the intelligence community exercise restraint in their requests for access to secrets and prevent what they receive from being leaked...
...FLEDGING adolescent a few years back I attempted to allay my middle-class guilt by adopting a philosophy of romantic asceticism. By keeping a frugal eye on my role as an American consumer, I was able to escape the mental anguish of coming from a financially comfortable family. At the same time I could strike a self-satisfying pose of identification with the underprivileged of the world. Only three things, I reasoned, justified any type of expenditure--books, records, and travel. These principles allowed me to obtain material happiness (books, records, and travel being all I really desired) while simultaneously...
...that Portugal was being taken over by leftists and faced "anarchy, crisis and chaos." His successors have gone out of their way to declare that though Portugal is steering a leftist course, it will not go Communist and will continue to honor its commitments to the Western alliance. To allay fears, Portugal's new President, Francisco da Costa Gomes, flew to the U.S. last week to meet President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He also addressed the U.N. General Assembly...
...materials are still about double those of November 1971. And the commodities markets are so notoriously volatile that no one can guarantee against a reversal of the reversal that would send prices up again. But most economists think that the recent drop is no fluke. Thus, the downturn should allay widespread fears that the roaring commodity-price spiral of the past two years was a symptom of a global inflationary fever that might never break...