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Word: disavows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donlan made his attack after Howa's debate with Samuel P. Sears concerning the use of the Fifth Amendment. He claimed that if Howe doesn't resign, "Harvard should publicly disavow his utterances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislator Donlan Asks Howe Resign | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...using McCarthy back in September. And if that plan works, if McCarthy's speech does provide a final boost to the Republican campaign, it will put General Eisenhower in a position of obligation to the Senator. We hope, though little expect, that the General will have the courage to disavow this connection before it binds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Punch-Drunk | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

...other hand, a larger share of responsibility for the confusion of McCarthyism belongs to those Republican leaders who have either openly encouraged McCarthy or failed to disavow him, in the belief that he was making votes. Republican Senate Leader Kenneth Wherry recently declared that McCarthy had done the U.S. a "great service." Even Ohio's Robert A. Taft came to McCarthy's defense when Truman described Joe as "a Kremlin asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Weighed in the Balance | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...President stand by the quotations in the book? Four times newsmen gave the President a chance to disavow them and each time he passed up the opportunity with a sharp no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Cruising Along | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...against this tide of Red agnosticism . . . The United States needs to know who are with us." He made this proposal: "The United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. If that is impractical, then a definite New United Front should be organized of those peoples who disavow Communism . . . All this may give pain to some people. But by their cries ye shall know them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Mixed Drinks | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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