Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the sleeping-bag and knapsack-carrying youths coming. What better way to dispel the odious myth of "the rich American...
Murder. The White House, Moynihan charged, had not responded when opportunities arose to dispel suspicion: "This was why I was so concerned at the time about the charge that the Black Panthers were being exterminated. I could get no one, save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what...
...Polaroid's ad campaign- designed to dispel notions of apartheid- is only an attempt to calm public outrage," said David Otsen of the African Research Group, a Cambridge-based study organization, at an M.I.T. teach-in last night in the student union...
...read it over the air. It was a memorandum from Turkey's military chiefs: "The Parliament and the government, with their continuing attitude, policies and actions, have pushed our country into anarchy, fratricide and social and economic unrest. Parliament should remain above party politics and consider measures to dispel the sorrow and hopelessness felt by the nation and the armed forces, to put an end to the anarchy and bring about reforms called for by the constitution. If this cannot be accomplished promptly, the Turkish armed forces, fulfilling their legal duty to protect the republic, will take power...
...Your article on welfare was enlightening in several respects. However, a prevalent "myth" you did not dispel is this: so many families on the dole keep right on having children, thus abusing, complicating and perpetuating the deplorable welfare situation...