Word: disown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST part, however, there has been little serious public consideration of the moral and political significance of the SLA program. With the notable exception of Ramparts, the long line of leftists ready to disown the SLA plus the major newspapers and newsmagazines which have played the sensational aspects of the Hearst case to the hilt have tended to obscure or at least to deal too briefly with serious issues raised by the history of the SLA: were its actions in any sense justified? If so--or if not--was the SLA's liquidation by the police and FBI justified? Have...
...Nixon cannot disown Agnew without further angering the conservatives in both parties. A Gallup poll last week showed that only 32% of the nation approved of the way that the President was handling his job, a drop of 6% since the Agnew case erupted and only 1% above his low mark during the depths of Watergate. And a Harris poll reported that 51% of the American people feel that Congress would be justified in beginning impeachment proceedings against the President if he refused a court order to turn over the Watergate tapes to a panel of judges...
...Speaking before 3,500 American Legionnaires at their annual convention in Chicago, he reminded them that he too is a Legionnaire in good standing. "I intend to remain a member of this outfit for as long as I live. You can disagree with me, but you can't disown me." He even waved the flag a bit, reciting a few saccharine lines of Earl Robinson's song The House I Live In. ("What is America to me?/ A name, a map, the flag I see./ A certain word, democracy./ That is America to me.") But he also defended...
...where the Hughes manuscript had originated. Assuming that Irving was telling the truth about the rest of his story, one theory still held that Howard Hughes had indeed met with the writer and poured forth his autobiography; then Hughes' associates persuaded him that he would have to disown the book or risk damaging financial and legal consequences. In this theory, Irving could be telling the truth about arranging the Swiss account at Hughes' request...
...wrong," he says. "At least I did what I had to do. I don't think I have to be forgiven for what was morally right. That's not my impression of amnesty." Back home in Johnston, Pa., his mother, Mrs. Betty Frederick, goes along: "Some parents disown their sons for this, but I can't. If he feels that this is right...