Word: disavowal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maoists." It is hard to know exactly who Dean Ford means by this phrase, but the most likely candidates are the members of Progressive Labor. Dean Ford's phrase, however, is worse than vague. For the term suggests a false analogy to Stalinist or Trotskyite (which Ford tries to disavow, though not explicitly). "Maoist" suggests someone under the domination of a rigid, foreign (un-American?) ideology. To call members of Progressive Labor Maoists, in ignorance of the content of their programs, is meaningless: worse, it is dangerously close to red-baiting...
...found in the ROTC program at Harvard a source of close and lasting friendships, as well as the beginning of a most interesting and satisfying career, I hope and trust that Harvard will act deliberately and wisely in this matter and that she will finally not disavow or weaken the officer-training program which she has supported so long and so well. Joseph M. Ambrose '42 Major General, AGC, MassARNG The Adjutant General
Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...
...other hand, Nixon might be freer to disavow the Vietnam policies of the past. He could, in fact, have become a humbler and wiser man during his eight years away from the center of power and might be able to restore leadership to an angry, divided country...
...University does not use real estate 'straws' in Cambridge and does not intend to do so." [A resolution had requested the University to "disavow the use of straws (front men) and other manipulative devices to acquire land and housing in Cambridge."] Real estate speculators not connected with the University have used Harvard's name in the past when buying land, Whitlock said, suggesting that persons so approached should call...