Word: debunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disease Alone. Despite the ingenuity of their retrospective diagnosis, the Butterfields are far from wanting to debunk Saint Joan. "Though we may understand the reason for her visions," they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...
...government sadhus," as old-line holy men already contemptuously call them, are expected to return to their own parts of the country equipped to combat such evils as the caste system, official corruption, adulteration of foodstuffs and the disuniting influence of local dialects. They will also try to debunk the sadhu as an object of superstitious awe by presenting themselves simply as do-gooders, rather than miracle men, and interpreting Hindu scripture in terms of social service...
Several Harvard professors were quick to debunk any such attempts to link mathematics with symbolism. "It just can't be done," one professor chuckled, "although the fact that he returned to his starting place may be significant. Possibly a longing for the eternal return," he explained, "yes, the eternal return...
...script was simply untrue." The rights to the play then reverted to Secondari. When Producer Brodkin moved over to CBS's Studio One, he bought The Commentator again, paying the "top price," according to the author. Producer Brodkin then cited the script in a newspaper interview to "debunk" the notion that TV is hamstrung by taboos. Last week, after getting word of the cancellation, Brodkin said, "I resent the implication that I am being censored." And Author Secondari, noting that ABC has no live dramatic show, concluded: "I've run out of networks...
...speech before the Authors' Club of London, his lordship charged that America must take the blame for much that is bad in current English. American slang is often "virile and admirable," and his lordship gave his blessings to such terms as bulldozer, blurb, debunk. But he was appalled by the U.S. use of face up to for face, meet up with for meet, check up on for check. "These atrocities are probably due to the influence of German immigrants who did not learn English...