Word: allaying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attacked the University's section. "The nature of this case does not dictate a leave nor a relief from teaching duties . . .", the Sun said. "The desire to satisfy certain pressure groups often influences the University's decisions; we hope that this was not the factor in the matter. To allay doubts, the University should reveal its motives...
...from the Far East. Says Osborne: "Unthinkingly and stupidly, I left London Airport for the Savoy without permission or visa, and the immigration and customs officials were in a splendid rage when Allen brought me back. His good offices and honest English face did more than my arguments to allay the quite serious threat of jail thrown at me by the officials...
...strikes against him when he was appointed by Eisenhower last winter to head the top Government housing agency. Since Cole had consistently opposed the present housing program while he was a Kansas Congressman, his appointment was attacked by unions and public housing groups. But he has worked hard to allay their suspicions...
...last week, Thimayya summoned U.N. and Communist correspondents to Panmunjom for his first press conference. For two hours, coolly, he sought to allay U.N. fears that the" P.W.s would be coerced by Communist "explainers" into going back to their Communist homelands. The P.W.s would have to go to the explanation huts, he said, "but how do you make a man listen...
Hefty Boost. To allay French fears, London, Washington and Bonn were busy searching for ways to make it easier for Paris to lay the European Army treaty before the Assembly. Konrad Adenauer began deliberately advertising his willingness to make concessions over the disputed Saar, even though they might cost him support in the nationally minded Bundestag. Britain, which has guaranteed French security on five separate occasions since 1945 ("Ever since I was a small boy," said one bored Foreign Office man), did it again. A British minister, said Whitehall, will sit in on the debates of EDC's governing...