Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written largely to dispel doubt, the Report and the accompanying 26 volumes of raw evidence now served to engender uncertainty and skepticism. Epstein demonstrated that the Commission had worked hastily, arbitrarily dismissed testimony that contradicted its overriding conclusion, and given only reluctant and far from unanimous approval to a dubious theory that later proved fundamental in the case against Oswald as the lone assassin...
...effort to dispel some of the more harmful myths about the course, members of the Social Relations Department involved with 120 attacked the review of the course in the CRIMSON,s Confidential Guide as unfortunate, inaccurate, irresponsible and possibly detrimental to the course...
Despite the Department's rhetoric about increasing contracts with Peking, opposition to Red China's admission adds strength to the convictions of the Red Chinese leaders that this country is irrevocably bent on destroying the Chinese People's Republic. Modifying the present position would not entirely dispel these beliefs, but some China experts argue that a few more active gestures toward the communists may yet help the moderates who are getting the worst of it in China's current upheaval. And the modification would certainly be consistent with Secretary Rusk's hope that the West will "break through the walls...
...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...
...Catholic church... Don't walk by, you're not good enough." There seemed to be an ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases, did the marchers' response dispel initial impressions. The quiet, "let's be reasonable, "can't we talk about this" approach was simply alien and frustrating...