Word: disown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike hands with those despicable advocates of human enslavement from the south who are currently writhing in the consequences of their own miscalculations, the party will be faced with a reverse far more serious than the recent one on November second. And it will not be enough to disown these misguided reactionaries. We must give active support to our new leaders. We must provide them with votes, with ideas, with grass roots missionary zeal...
...months, declared flatly: "No one is authorized by this union to say a vessel will not sail." He added sternly: "We will settle this beef in the usual manner -through the grievance machinery." The crew backed him up. At a meeting on board the ship they voted overwhelmingly to disown Avellar's ultimatum...
...current regime. This presents the problem of the government's arbitrary drawing of the line between opposition and treason, and action which involves a great danger. But there is also a danger, perhaps a greater danger, in those extremists whom Mr. Mikolajezyk and his loyal opposition completely disown but who nevertheless remain camouflaged within the ranks of the Peasant Party...
...Wallace departure in itself was enough to send Democratic stocks skidding. By his ill-timed, ill-considered outburst on U.S. foreign policy, he had immeasurably widened the existing breach. His stubborn insistence on campaigning only made it worse. In California, Candidate Will Rogers was forced to disown him completely. In New York he did the cause of Candidate Jim Mead no good by bearishly predicting Mead's defeat...
...editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with...