Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabot House Junior, Segal said he hopes to dispel what he termed, "quad-phobia." "I was told ar a freshman to be scared to death of the Quad and when I heard, I was scared ... there's a stereotype and it's not right," he added...
...Post interview is the latest in a series of Chernenko appearances evidently designed to dispel speculation that the leader's health is failing and that his nation is suffering a leadership vacuum. A few days after signing a friendship treaty in Moscow with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen, Chernenko last week received Syrian President Hafez Assad in the Kremlin. Hungarian Communist Leader Janos Kadar, on a visit to Paris last week, insisted that all is well in the Moscow hierarchy. Said he: "It is a stable leadership, and the continuity of its leadership is the mark...
...Pont wealth stems from the chemical company that is the state's largest employer. Initially, Elise du Pont was so eager to dispel the notion that she was riding on her husband's coattails and checkbook that her campaign billboards advertised her only as "Elise." When voters failed to respond, campaign strategists added her surname. Even though her husband has studiously stayed away from the campaign, her popularity is inexorably linked to his. Pierre du Pont, completing his second term, has an approval rating of some 90%. "Pete du Pont has turned the state around," says Rotarian John...
...title seems to invite snappy responses. Oh yeah? Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, either, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. But it takes Author Norman Mailer only a few pages to dispel any notion that he is dealing in parody, self-or otherwise. Tough Guys Don't Dance is, for openers, an engaging murder mystery, vividly set in a locale (Provincetown, Mass.) that Mailer, a sometime homeowner there, knows as well as the back of his fist. The book also raises questions besides whodunit. Among them: What, if anything, does being male or female mean...
Over the past decade, however, America's 13th largest city (pop. 708,000) has been laboring to dispel its old image and prevent the depressingly familiar slide into urban decay. New businesses have moved in, aided by tax breaks and lured by the city's location near the center of the nation. A once dreary downtown area has become slick and modern. Gleaming office towers, as well as a sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors...