Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheer complexity of the formula prevents students from accurately gauging their honors status on a running basis. Only on the eve of graduation can the Registrar's Office authoritatively dispel their uncertainly, correcting what are frequently false expectations...
...formula prevents students ganging their honors status on a running of graduation can the Registrar's dispel their uncertainty, correcting also expectations...
...handling of the Massiter affair, the government appeared to have done little to dispel public concern over potential abuses of the Official Secrets Act. At first, executives of Britain's Independent Broadcasting Authority, the public body that regulates commercial television, were advised by their lawyers that they risked prosecution if they allowed the documentary to be televised. But more than 40 opposition Members of Parliament signed a Commons motion saying that the public had a right to see the film. Last Tuesday, Attorney General Sir Michael Havers announced that no one would be prosecuted under the Official Secrets...
...dispel any lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...other encounters with the intellectual elite of the day are deftly depicted. There is also an abundance of Johnsonian anecdotes, though sometimes too many. The section on 1784, for instance, deals more with Johnson than it does Boswell, which is fine, except that Brady is attempting to dispel the prevalent image of Boswell as merely Johnson's sycophantic foil. There are already plenty of good biography's of Johnson, including Boswell...