Word: disavows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catholic institutions. Above all, it does not want to risk an intervention by the Soviets, who might try to stamp out religious rights. The church's censure of Kuron could aggravate a split between moderates and militants in Solidarity. Walesa, himself a moderate, has resisted all efforts to disavow the dissidents so far. Nevertheless, grumbling about his supposed timidity has increased among union militants. "The clergy has an important influence on him," says one unionist, "and I'm not sure it's a wise...
...could debate at length the relative merits of Humphrey and Nixon. Humphrey, once relieved of the burdens of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, might be able to lead us out of war...On the other hand, Nixon might be freer to disavow the Vietnam policies of the past...
...Klitgaard report remains a draft, and if Bok is "truly sorry" about the damage the report has done to people at Harvard, as his letter states, he will disavow the report and urge Klitgaard to do the same. And for Klitgaard's next task Bok can come up with a far more urgently needed study project--how to make Harvard's affirmative action program more effective at all levels...
...tactician. When a national conservative group passed out handbills that called McGovern, the father of five, a "baby killer" because he believes women should have a right to abortions, he objected to being smeared by out-of-staters. So many South Dakotans sided with him that Abdnor had to disavow the group's support...
...product of a sane mind, ideas with which the author concurs--or whether they are lunatic ravings. It's a very convenient device for Percy. He can say controversial things about war, about Nazis and Jews, about other sensitive subjects and still leave room for himself to disavow then if a reader gets too offended. But in The Second Coming, Percy introduces a new sort of character--the genuine schizophrenic, not a mouthpiece for his own questionable ideas but a true dysfunctional. Allison, a post-shock-therapy mental hospital escapee, approaches the external world as if it were a book...