Word: disclaimed
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...stumbling block, Whitlock said, may be the disclaimer requirement that is part of the act establishing the Office of Economic Opportunity. The act specifies that anyone receiving a grant from the office must first disclaim "belief" in any organization held subversive...
Senate-House conferees preparing a compromise foreign-aid authorization bill yesterday rejected the Senate's requirement that U.S. contractors disclaim "belief in" any subversive organization...
What the University objects to is a clause requiring applicants for Federal grants to disclaim belief in any subversive organization. Such an is unconstitutional, the University maintains, since it attempts to control a citizen's beliefs...
Almost by reflex, people rushed to disclaim even remote complicity in the murder. "Thank God it wasn't a Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...Exchequer Reginald Maudling, 46, the shrewd, amiable favorite of most Tory backbenchers, told friends he was prepared to fight for the job. Hailsham, an ebullient individualist whose jingoistic rhetoric stirs the squirearchy to rapture, told a wildly cheering We-Want-Hailsham rally: "I am now prepared to disclaim my peerage and resign as leader of the House of Lords and to accept the invitation of any constituency that is prepared to receive...