Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West crisis. It showed that his absence had not been planned as a rebuff and a "delaying action"; it showed that the Kremlin was not willing that the battle of Berlin should play itself out in the strong-arm terms of Western airlift v. Soviet blockade. It helped to dispel, or at least palliate, a war scare in London, where Foreign Minister Bevin had gravely briefed a grave House of Commons. In answer to a question from Winston Churchill, Mr. Bevin said that the demobilization of 20,000 men a month from the British armed forces could be stopped...
...even as the orchestra alternates Russian dances and American foxtrots with admirable impartiality, not even common convention can dispel the uneasiness, like a chill draught from an unseen window, that stirs through the perspiring crowd. Three young men try hard: a bright-eyed British captain, a young American diplomat and a blond, slightly bewildered-looking Russian lieutenant who apparently speaks some English. The American has his hands in his pockets as the other two systematically spoon up their mixed salad. Says the British captain: "I've only been here two months but I really do like it . . . We certainly...
Plenty of Room. Fox himself is anxious to dispel any suspicions that he stands to profit by unfair "monopoly" or "state trading." His contract, he says, affects only about 25% of the islands' total trade ($450 million in 1940), and private Indonesians are free to deal with whom they please. Competitors, he insists, are welcome-particularly from...
...lovers, but he is careful to keep 3,000 miles between himself and their cocktail parties. His strange paintings, completely uninfluenced by the fads of 57th Street, look as if they might have been done by a lama in the peaks of Tibet. Graves has done little to dispel that illusion. When his temperas were first shown and acclaimed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), critics and writers excitedly wired Seattle for information about him. The tall, cadaverous recluse sent them a characteristic aphorism instead. "Vision," he wired back, "grows in the meadows...
...institutions capable of pulling a class together, the Smoker is one of the only ways to dispel the apathy so prevalent now. The present 1951 attempt to "surpass all previous Smoker gaiety" should not be stymied by the abortive affair of last year, when the Class of '48 was forced by fear of publicity to forego Jane Russell for chalk talks by Dahl, and finally to forego Dahl for no Smoker. But publicity is unfavorable only if riots and abductions ensue, and by vetoing the get-together, University Hall only intensified the disunity already present...