Word: disown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstration for the first time on Dec. 5, 1966, joining a tiny band of dissidents who had assembled in Moscow's Pushkin Square to call for a new and genuine Soviet constitution. His increasingly open defiance of the government caused his three children by his first wife virtually to disown him. Nonetheless, Sakharov gave them his comfortable Moscow apartment and his dacha when he stripped himself of the luxuries he had acquired as a nuclear physicist. He donated his life savings of $153,000, an astronomical sum by Soviet standards, to cancer research and the Red Cross...
...smile infectious, Wilder had grown far too adroit to speak of racial issues in anything other than soft, almost dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop the historic implications of his campaign in a protective cloak of Bill Cosbyesque banalities...
...attitudes about the proper role of women also manifest themselves in a variety of fears. Horner, an associate professor of psychology and social relations, described a number of phenomena afflicting women, including fears of both success and failure, and the "imposter phenomenon," the tendency for highly successful women to disown their own accomplishments...
...regulation concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses, the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...
...movie that is reasonably genial and diverting. At a cost of $10 million or $15 million, it might have made the studio happy. But even the misery of its unrecoupable costs is cushioned; the management that initiated the project has been replaced, and the new team can cheerfully disown it. And the Great Seducer skips off to the next bed -- er -- boardroom...