Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brass Plate. For his efforts, Salinger gets a hefty salary plus stock options. One of his frequent tasks, Salinger concedes, is helping to dispel investor worries about GRAMCO's Nassau base. Lax laws, loosely enforced, have given the Bahamas a reputation as a haven for promoters of dubious activities...
...raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...
Peasant Revolts. The authors convincingly dispel the nostalgic notion that the nation's colleges, until this century, were amiable castles of learning where faculty and students worked harmoniously together. The early U.S. college teachers were nonprofessionals, often aspiring clergymen or wealthy aristocrats; they saw themselves "as policemen whose job was to keep recalcitrant and benighted undergraduates in line." The faculty, in turn, was intimidated by domineering presidents intent on "imposing their personal stamp on the entire college." The aim of trustees was generally to promote a special interest-a religion, a social class, a vocation or locality...
Myopic Eye. The danger of such a credo, of course, is that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...
...name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism and Christianity. But as Michael Zeik, a Jew ish professor at Catholic Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., puts it, such scholarship will help Christians and Jews "go beyond the sentimental hand-holding stage." Last week Catita Williams, 20, a pretty Episcopal coed at Georgetown, confessed...