Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products, urged Nigeria's Alhaji Shehu Shagari, would "provide a real ray of light that would dispel the somber cloud that has shrouded the activities of this child of hope...
Perhaps in acknowledgement of the antagonism which its triple orientation generates in other parts of the city, the CCA has attempted recently to expand and include progressive voices from south and east Cambridge. A continuation of this policy should help to dispel misunderstanding on the part of both the CCA in its ivory tower and its resentful opponents...
...philosopher worthy of the name," Marcel asserted, refuses to submit to the negative attitudes and disillusionments which constantly confront him. He clings to his capacity for wonderment "despite everything surrounding him, and even within him, that tends to dispel...
...anti-jockism at Harvard is as bad as anti-intellectualism; neither type of personality under attack really exists per se at Harvard, and there is no reason why a varsity athlete can't dispel the erroneous triad of stero-types by joining a final club and getting A's. To those who ask "What the hell are you doing down at that wet, muddy field with a bunch of robot-animals when you could be expanding your knowledge by reading or studying?" the athlete can reply "Accumulating a college experience" with as much validity and pride as a member...
...dispel any pious delusions that the Symphony Hall Holy Week program, presented by the Boston Symphony and the two University choruses, was a sacred one. Neither Bruckner's Te Deum, Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal nor Faure's Requiem limit themselves to liturgical and theological ends. Their Christianity is a useful vehicle for the composers' larger musical or intellectual notions (if indeed the ideas in the Wagner or Faure are really Christian...