Word: disowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Sell? But in recent months Nixon's dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower Administration's political savvy has caused him to take political stands independent of the White House, leaving the President free to disown him if he goes too far. Thus, while White House spokesmen were still scoffing at Sputnik I as a "silly bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign...
...Colonel Barlian, commander of South Sumatra. His area includes the rich Stanvac and Shell oilfields and refineries at Palembang, which supply most of Djakarta's gasoline. Padang's Colonel Husein is his closest friend, and he is with the rebels in spirit but, so far, hesitates to disown Djakarta. Possible reasons: his region is heavily settled by migrant Javanese who in recent municipal elections gave one-third of their votes to the Communists; one of his four battalions is made up of Javanese troops. To underline his neutrality he last week had his officers and men swear allegiance...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...
...being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary on Moscow's failure to purge all the old "Stalinists." But he was also careful to disown Nagy, and to justify the use of Soviet tanks, thus supporting Moscow where it counted: in its crushing of the rebellion...
...November-Kefauver has the advantage of being a well-known name, of standing for 100% parity for the small farmer, of owning a live, grass-roots organization. Kefauver is not Adlai's type; the Deep South dislikes him and so does his own Tennessee delegation; congressional Democrats disown him. But the power of the November arithmetic is mighty...