Word: disavows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD SCHWEIKER, 50, Reagan's implausible liberal choice as a running mate, helped the Californian not at all and damaged his own great ambitions to become an important party leader or, one day, President. By eagerly embracing almost all of Reagan's positions and promising to disavow the previous pro-labor stands that had made him a darling of the AFL-CIO, Schweiker came across as an opportunist. He spent most of his time in the campaign vainly trying to explain his complete flipflop...
Parrish claims, however, that Reems is liable for conspiracy because he knew the nature of the film before he acted in it and because, under federal law, "you remain a member of a conspiracy until you do an affirmative act to disavow or defeat the conspiracy...
...materials prices have failed to keep pace with the prices of manufactured goods over the past 25 years. The implication-unpalatable to the U.N.'s Third World majority-is that the industrial nations have not been ripping off the poor countries to the extent often charged. U.N. statisticians disavow the conclusion reached by the ten-member study group, which was headed by Harvard Professor Hendrik Houthakker, a former member of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers...
Your assertion that I was "distressed" over President Nixon's taped conversations of June 23, 1972, was a damnable lie. I reaffirm my unequivocal support of President Nixon, and I utterly disavow your suggestion that I found fault with his course of action...
Stewart Doig taught me American history in eleventh grade. He is a hero to me not because of his political beliefs, which I once admired but which I have come to disavow. He is a hero to me because he is a fine and decent man who firmly believes in the goodness of his fellow human beings and because he is one of the few people I know who is unswerving when it comes to acting on those beliefs...