Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispel the notion of some people that anyone will survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
...might yet prevail and be reconfirmed as Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality...
...cheer, No time for gloomy prescience--a time for drinking beer. So gather with your colleagues, celebrate with friends, Keep the noise and music going till the party ends. And when those visions haunt you, of dangers and of doom. Close your eyes and think of things that might dispel the gloom. Think about the future, however it may fall, Think about the past--or, better, just don't think...
...credibility of the other colleges and universities and pronounce the women silly airheads--their only desire in life being to net a Harvard man who will marry them and make them happy forever and anon. In many cases this label is not deserved--yet little is ever done to dispel the myths that have been around for so long, and that show no likelihood of dying soon...
...report, says SPS Pioneer Peter Glaser, "is a landmark study that should go a long way to dispel the apprehensions and just plain misunderstandings about solar power satellites...