Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thailand: With the Administration eager to get Thai troops involved in the defense of Cambodia, and the Thais displaying no haste to do so, Agnew will have a job on his hands to dispel doubts about Nixon's intentions. "They get nervous whenever somebody on the Hill says something disparaging, although it isn't the Administration that's speaking," a White House aide said...
Once man had finally stepped onto dusty lunar soil, scientists thought that they would easily be able to dispel all mysteries about the moon's composition. Alas, not so. Both seismic tests on the moon's surface and experiments on earth have shown that lunar material transmits sound at a perplexingly slower rate than ordinary terrestrial rocks...
...even Kissinger's kudos. Rogers was understandably upset over insinuations that it was Richardson who really ran the department. One reason he has so far not found a replacement in the eight weeks since Richardson was promoted to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare may be to dispel such rumors...
...advertising," says Utah's Senator Frank E. Moss, "which mounts so graphically the message that pills turn rain to sunshine, gloom to joy, depression to euphoria and solve problems and dispel doubts." Moss's indictment reflects a growing Government concern that ad campaigns for proprietary drugs -notably sleeping pills, sedatives, stay-awake stimulants and analgesics-may be contributing to the alarming spread of drug abuse...
...Viet Nam's leaders asserted, and that the U.S. would remain involved in order to furnish logistical support. With both U.S. and South Vietnamese energies thus diverted, would Vietnamization and U.S. withdrawals from Viet Nam be slowed? Laird and Rogers denied it, but not so categorically as to dispel all doubts. Rogers, for instance, refused to rule out future air strikes in Cambodia. Nor did the Administration quarrel with Senator John Stennis's argument against congressional restraints on U.S. military action in Cambodia (see following story...