Word: disowns
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...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...
Russia's Arkady Sobolev, grasping quickly at a chance to score with the Arabs, announced that his government would disown its words and vote to strike them from the resolution. Sir Pierson Dixon, after stiffly refusing to take out "five little words which are really a glimpse of the obvious," received new orders from "a higher authority," namely Sir Anthony Eden. At the next meeting the British and the U.S. yielded "in the interests of unanimity." Dropping the paragraph the Arabs objected to, the council voted a watered-down resolution calling on the secretary-general to keep using...
...World War II had fought and died to deliver Greece "from what I then believed, and still believe, was the certainty of Communist rule ... I was in Athens at the time." He accused Archbishop Makarios of negotiating in bad faith, of raising his demands, of refusing to disown the terrorists. Added Eden: "We had no choice but to fulfill our responsibilities or abdicate our authority, and we chose the former. It was not an agreeable decision...