Word: disown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storming army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun Oum agreed to disown SEATO, which guarantees Laos against outside aggression, and to establish diplomatic relations with Laos' "neighbors," meaning Red China and North Viet Nam. The princes called for new elections and the departure of all foreign troops from Laos. "Details"' were to be worked out at the princes' next...
...Nephew sets out to disown both the technique and theme of Malcolm. The first paragraph shows us that a different, more conservative Purdy is writing...
...Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people." Replied Kennedy during his TV debate: "Mr. Truman has his methods of expressing things . . . They are not my style, but I really don't think there's anything that I could say to cause...
...Bagwell, who has troubles with conservatives in his own party, is fighting a lonely battle against labels. "This is an age when we like to classify people under one heading or another," he says. Just as union politicians oppose him because he is a "Republican," so do some businessmen disown him as a "liberal," a "professor." an "egghead." His rebuttal: "I don't consider myself either a liberal or a conservative. I am a responsible Republican...