Word: disown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a large crowd, infantrymen bore the kicking, screaming colonel out the door and off to military prison, where he faces trial and a possible three-year jail sentence. The army announced that it would henceforth issue communiques to disown the retired "pajama" officers who have served as military dressing for Communist-front platforms. Justice Minister Negrão de Lima ordered police to ban all further "peace" meetings. "Evidence indicates," he said, "that notorious Communists are found among virtually all peace committees. These peace movements are merely a pretext for Communist propaganda...
...Engels ready for every occasion . . . Instead of laboring to think up something new or to study experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx or Engels could rise from the grave . . . they would disown them immediately...
...Reformation which modern Protestantism tends to neglect is the overarching sense of vocation, the Calvinist and Lutheran drive to participate in the whole of this actual world and to bring all of it under the judgment of God...What we imagine to be the Protestant tradition, the Puritan would disown as a flight from responsible exercise of power or influence...
...students were not disposed to accept the new rule without a fight. Almost as soon as it appeared in the fall of 1936, the CRIMSON charged that "the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...
...think up something new or studying experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx could rise from the grave and see such a follower (if this term is permissible), he undoubtedly would immediately disown...