Word: disown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of Hon. Averill's elopement reached Lord Furness by plane he loudly swore that he would disown any daughter of his who married a zebra trainer. Back flew the plane to Nairobi with a notice which last week appeared in the East African Standard...
...more than that. The Japanese Cotton Spinners' Association owns twelve mills in Shanghai. Under orders from Tokyo they threatened to close their mills last week, throw 70,000 Chinese out of work. A group of worried Chinese merchants last week called on Mayor Wu Teh-chen, begged him to disown the boycott society. Chinese, they slyly added, could still boycott to their heart's content, privately. Meanwhile, Mayor Wu temporized, Chinese troops began barricading the city, the Japanese marines fretted aboard their warships, eager to get ashore and have some...
...upon the method adopted by me, but my country is not likely to mistake my meaning. I say what I mean and think. The only way to conquer violence is through non violence, pure and undefiled. "If, in spite of repeated warnings, the people resort to violence, I must disown responsibility and you may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which it could understand how to deal with." Shrewd Move. Certainly there...