Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mere Mannerisms. Half a dozen variations on this theme help to dispel any notion of Dickens as irrepressibly comic. Other "best stories" of Editor Zabel's choosing include second-rate ghost thrillers and third-rate detective stories. At novel length, Dickens could create memorable caricatures, e.g., Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Madame Defarge. In the short stories, his characters are mere mannerisms. In the novels, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller produce idiosyncratic dialogue; in the short stories there is only an endless chatty...
...committee on cultural exchange, which included Rosenblum, proposed that America vigorously encourage an exchange of people from all social strata, not just students and politicians, to emphasize the essential similarities of the two national groups and to dispel distrust of their superficial differences...
Before the contest, Munro had expressed doubt that any member of the present team could replace departed senior Roger Tuckerman at center. But Ekpebu, substituting for Keith Lowe midway in the first period, quickly began to dispel Munro's fears...
...worker-priest movement in France, the Church of England is still wary of the idea. "This is a waste of skilled manpower," says Dr. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield. Strong's retort: "Many people regard the Church as something apart. In my own way I am trying to dispel that attitude." One proof of his success: Strong was elected by his fellow workers to be shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineering Union...
...future is a "horrible prospect," said she, but she hoped that her action might "dispel the false, absurd and dangerous notion that Catholics cannot speak for themselves." The speaker was Sue Simone Ingersoll, 20, Roman Catholic and New Mexico's entry in this week's Miss Universe Pageant, and she was explaining to reporters in Long Beach, Calif, why she was defying her archbishop by appearing in public bathing-suit exhibitions...