Word: disavower
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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...
...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...
Holding a Grudge. Kiesinger was furious. He went on TV to disavow Schroder, saying that "the Cabinet has by no means decided to cut the troop strength of the Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...