Word: allay
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...part, "Hu wants to show a smiling face to the public in the U.S. and say, 'We like you very much,'" says Jin Canrong, an international-relations professor at Beijing's Renmin University, who expects Hu to try to allay concerns about the trade deficit. Toward that end, Beijing sent an advance team to spread the kind of goodwill Americans can take to the bank--a 200-strong delegation led by Vice Premier Wu Yi that has plans to ink contracts for about $16 billion in U.S. goods, including Microsoft software and up to 80 Boeing jets...
...Gregory J. B. Marsh, HBS) is brought to the States by his fellow British friend “Froggy” (Justin A. Monticello ’09) in an attempt to cheer him up. The play then takes on a comical twist when Froggy, in an effort to allay Charlie’s irrational fear of social interaction with the local Southerners, tells them that Charlie is actually a foreigner who doesn’t understand a word of English...
That produced a fascinating musical fusion, but it didn't allay the doubts that most of the creators had, straight through rehearsals, about their quest and their sanity. Says set and costume designer Rob Howell: "Every other day one of us was wondering out loud, 'What. Are. We. Doing...
Lethal injection, a subject of controversy in the U.S., was once expected to allay public squeamishness about the DEATH PENALTY...
...After an article about the letter was published in The Crimson, Summers sent a response directly to McDonald, and later to the entire Faculty. In the response, obtained by The Crimson, Summers attempted to allay the chairs’ concern by saying that The Crimson’s sources for the story had engaged in “irresponsible and misguided speculation...