Word: disavows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London with its "leagues of lights"; he roamed the streets in horror that the seething crowds he found there would soon be lying horizontal underground. Like the middle class whose poet he became, Tennyson spent most of his life in a vague struggle to soften, to disavow the harsh materialism of mines and factories that made the wealth of England and killed her poor in slums; to cling to the beauty of the spirit and to belief...
Against this, Stalin's interviews with Roy Howard (1936) and Harold King of Reuters (1943), purporting to disavow world revolutionary aims, can only appear as eyewash, and that is just how Historicus explains them. The interviews, he says, "do not really contradict the strategic aim of world revolution because they refer to a temporary tactic...
...splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return to the naked power politics of pre-war years defeats the purpose of the U.N. and suggests a headlong race for natural resources...
Empire Plan. Now, as general manager, Gortatowsky has a lot to say about how the Hearst papers are run, but like all well-mannered Hearst brass hats, would have you believe that "The Chief" does it all himself. This disavowal of credit also enables him to disavow responsibility for Hearstian yellow jingoism...
...British Foreign Office hastened to disavow responsibility for the General's appointment, saying that it had not been consulted...