Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curry will not be rejoining the team this year or ever again, for that matter. If that be the case, then let's have some official confirmation. At least, some acknowledgment that it might happen. Curry's athletic status should be clearly defined in such a manner as to dispel the numerous rumors floating around the school. Though the storm will eventually blow over, that does not vindicate the current silence...
Religious Faith. But none of that could dispel the pain. Said Housewife Mary Lawrence: "I feel for parents who have no religious faith. What can you do if you love a child and then lose him? You have to take your strength from somewhere else." Said State Highway Patrolman Dan Gust: "I've seen a lot of accidents. But when you get right down to it, you get hurt just the same as anybody else." Gust's son, Steven, 17, had died in the crash...
ANOTHER loser was John Connally, still the most popular politician in the state. Connally has a reputation for political savvy, but lately he has done a lot to dispel that image, starting with joining the Republican Party in the depths of the Watergate scandal. He refused to endorse either Ford or Reagan, probably hoping that the party might turn to him as a compromise. That looks no more likely now than it did last week, and all Connally accomplished was to alienate both Ford, who might have been saved by a Connally endorsement, and Reagan, who owes him nothing. Connally...
...Explorer, under the guise of an oceanic mining and exploration ship. Its real mission remains the subject of suspicion. Despite Government denials, there is speculation that the ship may have been performing different duties-like implanting a weapons systern on the ocean floor. Last week the Government sought to dispel those suspicions by allowing newsmen to visit the huge barge that accompanied the Glomar Explorer on the mission. The craft looked harmless, but it was not large enough to accommodate a retrieved Soviet submarine, as the CIA at first asserted...
Among the experienced writers who spent years researching books on the assassination, most (including McMillan, Gerrold Frank and William Bradford Huie) have concluded that Ray acted alone. Even if they are right, their work is unlikely to dispel all doubts in a period when, with some justification, many people are unwilling to reject readily any conspiracy theory...