Word: disown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's democratically elected representatives all this smacked unpalatably of dictatorship-and at a time when France was supposed to be fighting for Democracy. Before voting the Premier his renewed powers they forced him publicly and formally to disown any intention of lessening Parliamentary prestige and control and to agree to "submit" his decrees to Parliament's "judgment" whenever practical...
Quiet, pious folk, the Mennonites own no authority outside the Bible and enlightened conscience, disown war, infant baptism, jury duty and the taking of oaths. Most of them are thrifty, hardworking farmers, but lately many have entered industry. Chief problem which confronted last week's conference was that of industrial strife, which Mennonites abhor as much as they...
Because it annually sponsors American Education Week jointly with the Legion, and solicits the Legion's help to get more money for schools, the N. E. A. was highly embarrassed by this report. It hastened to disown Dr. Gellermann's thesis. Meanwhile, Legionnaires sprang to arms. Said Theodore Roosevelt, a Legion founder: "The study must have been made by a jackass." To Manhattan rushed National Commander Daniel J. Doherty to demand that the N. E. A. let him answer. Commander Doherty finally was given the floor at the convention's last business session. Said...
...regulation concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...
...water bottles! A thousand times NO. Merely the outpouring of a perverted mind, who, I am sure, Los Angeles would disown for such mouthings. For Los Angeles is proud of her nextdoor neighbor, conscious of our worthwhileness, our value and place in the growth of Southern California...