Word: disownment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those neon posters go up in flames would be exciting--for about one second. Sure, becoming a media darling would be piles of fun--in theory. But the embarrassment and the humiliation that would follow for years to come would be almost unbearable. My friends would all but disown me. No significant other would ever fully trust me. Student organizations would make fun of me in their posters...
...fact is that no one on the planet really knows what will happen when 01-01-00 rolls around. Whether we'll be glad we were panicked into action or we'll disown the doomsayers depends on how diligently the programmers do their job in the next 50 weeks. One thing is already clear. In a century in which man split the atom, spliced genes and turned silicon into data, the tale of Y2K--how we ignored it for 40 years, then flew into a tizzy--will not be remembered as our finest hour...
...Radcliffe had done a lot to disown itself from undergraduates," said RUS Co-President Mia Bagneris...
Initial indications are that the decision by the Iranian government to disown the death sentence that was issued against novelist SALMAN RUSHDIE in 1989 is backed by both the competing moderate and hard-line factions in Iran. The first suggestion that this chapter was closing came last week in New York City, when Iran's moderate President Mohammed Khatami told reporters that the Rushdie affair was "completely finished." On Thursday, Iranian TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, reported on the news from New York City factually and without editorial comment, signaling its acquiescence to the decision...
Actions such as this appointment make me want to disown Harvard. This is the only letter of this type I have ever written; may it be the last. JOHN L. ADAMS '50 Sarasota, Fla., April...