Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SWAT joined the complaint partly to dispel club charges that the complaint was invalid because Schkolnick had already graduated from the College. Members of SWAT said in April that including their organization as a party would guarantee that there would always be a direct connection between the case and current Harvard College students...
...naive fear that a victim sometimes feels of causing a potential scandal, compounded by my being a newly-arrived student, I chose almost immediately not to report the incident. It certainly served, though, to dispel any assumptions that I'd been under of Harvard's being solely a place of enlightened beings. Although he did apologize later, the student had quickly displayed his readiness--no matter how irrational--to take out his frustrations on someone different from himself...
...Crimson Key Society each year sponsors Orientation Week, an opportunity to watch the abilities of the class coalesce. The administration is responsible for the exams; we're responsible for the fun. All of these events--from the ice cream bash to the infamous first-year mixer--are designed to dispel the popular myths that all Harvard students are geeks, snobs...
...such frenetic activity cannot dispel the persistent sense that Clancy is grappling with his own form of mid-life crisis: the dilemma posed by answered prayers. "Tom is doing what you and I would do when we achieve a goal," says Lieut. Commander Gerry Carroll, a Navy pilot who has been Clancy's close friend since high school. "He's asking himself, 'Now what should I try to do?' It's not the great American ennui in the sense of a mystified now-what. It's more of an earnestness to hitch up your wagon...
Cliffs Notes objected to a takeoff on its trademarked cover design. "The defense 'parody' does not magically dispel what would otherwise be an infringement," said its attorney. A federal judge agreed. Doubleday plans an appeal...