Word: disown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This had to be the first anti-Vietnam rally ever at which invocation was read (there were large pockets of people who refused to stand up for it). Most of the speakers went out of their way to disown the more radical elements of the protest movement...
...feel that You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' isn't as bad as some records, but please, can we disown this Phil Spector? He's worse than anything that has come out of England, and he's not even English...
Within an hour the vicious villain has slandered the hero's good name, persuaded the gullible Allworthy to disown him, extracted from Squire Western a promise that Sophie will become his bride instead of Tom's. Appalled, Sophie flees to London, whither Tom is also bound. Western and Blifil set out in hot pursuit, and the next hour is crammed with all manner of violent and absurd adventures: desperate duels, rascally robberies, satanic stranglings, egregious escapes, and any number of precipitate plunges into a fate nobody seems to consider worse than death. At the climax poor dear Sophie...
...Kick the Democrats." A few days after issuing his statement, Rockefeller came out and jabbed at Goldwater by name. The radical rightists, he said, could "capture Goldwater if he doesn't disown them." When CBS proposed a one-hour Rocky v. Barry TV debate on "the policies and directions of the Republican Party in 1964," Rockefeller quickly accepted, but Goldwater just as quickly declined. The Senator, said a Goldwater aide, "does not intend to engage in any TV programs or other actions which could have the effect of contributing to disunity in the Republican Party...
...contemplating the baby's hand, the terror of watching its first illness, the slowly emerging awareness of what shape their marriage may finally assume. And in the interplay between the generations lies a lingering dynastic question: How much do we inherit from the past; how much can we disown...