Word: disavower
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Eisenach, 36, does not disavow spiritual ties to the Gingrich crusade. He considers himself the curator of Gingrich's ideas. He agrees with the Speaker that no idea has played a more central role in American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever...
...aide in Arkansas and on the campaign trail, she was the chief squelcher of controversy and scandal. But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration. Just last week Wright had to disavow a New Yorker article that quoted her suggesting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had plans to run for the presidency. While most people in Washington know enough to take some of her statements with a grain of salt, she can still embarrass the White House...
Rivers, for example, has been particularly critical of the Nation of Islam for its refusal to disavow violence. Rivers, who preaches in the streets around Four Corners in Dorchester, was among four area ministers who signeda letter in March suggesting Nation of Islam leaders were behind the murder of Malcolm...
...insist that he wanted peace, that he had been seeking a dialogue." Yet in November when top aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad made a venom-soaked speech at New Jersey's Kean College, a state- funded school, Farrakhan rebuked him only for his "mockery" and said he could not disavow the anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay "truths" his aide had spoken. Indeed, Farrakhan repeated some of them in an interview with TIME last week...
Unfortunately, MacKinnon had been reading too many of her own manuscripts and actually believed she had been raped. "Please disavow this rape of me" she asked a columnist. And concessions weren't exactly on MacKinnon's mind when she said in Time, "He wants me as a violated woman with her legs spread. He needed me there before he could address my work...