Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evasion did not dispel curiosity; it doubled it. The obvious inference was that Commander Crabb had been employed by some secret arm of the government. Whatever the intelligence agency hoped to learn under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze was plainly not worth the risk of being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment...
...hope you will permit me to dispel some of the anxiety caused by your recent editorial about the Department of English, for I can't believe that our prospects are as bleak as you say. To be sure, Professor Rollins' retirement is a major loss for the Department as well as for the University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia...
...Convention, leaving only four district delegates for Stevenson. The day before Minnesota, Stevenson had been considered almost a sure bet to get the Democratic nomination; the day after, there was doubt whether he could stay in the race. At a grim news conference the next afternoon, he tried to dispel the doubt. "I will try even harder," he said. "I have just begun...
...handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated to echo in Italy: "One visit like this is more than enough to dispel the erroneous idea prevalent in Europe that the American idea is to use money to get money. I find that, on the contrary, money is used to create and display beauty...
BENSON: . . . Most interesting ... No one questions that agriculture is in a serious squeeze between rising prices for things farmers buy and declining prices for products they sell . . . [But] I want to dispel once and for all any impression . . . that thousands of farmers in Iowa and elsewhere are being driven off their farms . . . The facts are that farm foreclosures are at or near their record low . . . Any attempt, I feel, to persuade the American farmer that the small farmer is dying in Iowa or anywhere else is a perversion of the truth. And I think it's demagoguery...