Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only sure thing about the Faculty's resolution on grading is its confusion. Yesterday, three administrators tried to dispel some of the uncertainty...
Last week Santa Barbara County Sheriff James Webster reported a different version: as his men began moving into the area around the bank to disperse the students, one cop's rifle went off accidentally, the bullet ricocheted off the ground and may have killed Moran. To dispel any whitewash charges, Webster promised a televised inquest into the death...
Prouty found no satisfactory answers from pro-Carswell colleagues to his questions about the nominee. "I thought we would be doing the Administration a favor by recommitting, giving Carswell a chance to dispel some of the doubts about him," he said. Once the recommittal motion had failed, he concluded, he could not support Carswell on the final vote. Said Prouty: "It was a difficult decision-one of the most difficult I have ever had to make...
...part to dispel these misleading notions about the Chicago trial that attorney William Kunstler and defendant John Froines came to Harvard last week. But the appearance of Kunstler and Froines on the stage of Sanders Theatre had something of a circus-like quality to it. Those who saw them knew exactly what they were coming to hear, and their presentations changed few minds. Above all, the two were a spectacle. People came to find out what they looked like, what they talked like. Still, in spite of it all, they bore their message gracefully and honorably, with a lightness that...
...economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a setback. Like other affluent Western countries, the U.S. has avidly pursued prosperity, convinced that a rising standard of living would ameliorate if not dispel most economic and social ills...