Word: disavowals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Came." Romney's chief political booster, Nelson Rockefeller, continued to disavow presidential designs of his own, but for the first time in nearly three years he began to break his silence-just a little bit-on Viet Nam. Having endured a brutal public relations defeat in the New York City garbage dispute when he refused to call out the National Guard to break the sanitation strike, Rockefeller obliquely compared that battle...
...plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics, Desilu's president Lucille Ball will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This outer-office memorandum will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Bruce...
...constitution goes through, Ankrah, 52, a genial member of a fishing and farming tribe who was educated by Methodists and trained at a British officers' school, will no doubt be the front-running candidate for Ghana's presidency. Though all the council officers disavow any interest in politics, Ankrah lately seems to be enjoying mixing with crowds. His speaking voice, which has an embarrassing tendency to reak into a high register, has become more confident. He has even sent his wife off to a charm school in London. Then, too, he could easily qualify as the father...
Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public, but he seems even more petulant and petty. A sampling of his views...
...time for decent Americans of dark skin to disavow black racists, black assassins and black criminals, just as decent Americans of light skin have disavowed white racists, white assassins and white criminals...