Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubts lingered about Baker's staying power, his newest compendium--Poor Russell's Almanac, his eighth book--should dispel them. A "retooled" and "retrofitted" edition of his 1972 version with the same name, the Almanac is less overtly political than other Baker books such as So This is Depravity. That work, Baker addicts will recall, answered the Big Questions--queries like "Is it true that [former president] Zachary Taylor liked to be spanked by older women?" (no) and "Wasn't George Washington once treated for an Oedipus complex?" (yes, but it was accidental), Instead, the revamped Almanac offers an hysterical...
...legged on the lawn. The finished painting became the Reagans' Christmas card this year. That token of good will to men is not a new phenomenon in the federal city, where trouble is the main business. Many Presidents have turned to Christmas festivities with a special fervor, to dispel for a few precious hours the gloom that usually presses in. Back in 1941, when war had come and news of defeat was the daily Washington fare, Franklin Roosevelt brought a guest to the South Portico on Christmas Eve. Winston Churchill looked out over thousands of troubled people...
...conference started with shrill accusations that the Administration had "rigged" committee assignments to affirm President Reagan's views. Worried about the growing backlash against the White House, President Reagan made an unscheduled appearance to dispel doubts that he was "somehow an enemy of my own generation." The conclave ended Thursday with shouts of protest as 2,266 delegates were compelled to approve or reject a package of 600 often contradictory resolutions with a single yes or no vote...
Visibly enjoying the worldwide attention he was receiving, Schmidt described his role as that of an "interpreter" of U.S. policy. To dispel any doubts about his loyalty to the Western alliance, he was meticulous in keeping Washington informed. Both before Brezhnev's arrival and after his departure, he phoned Reagan with progress reports...
...This is not an Administration that is unraveling." So insisted White House Communications Director David Gergen last week, trying to dispel a sprouting impression in Washington that what he was denying might well be true. But if not unraveled, the White House was at least beleaguered. Just as the Administration was stamping out the flames from Budget Director David Stockman's disparaging comments on Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly, it found itself plagued by a scandal of much greater dimensions. The problem seemed at first to be a penny-ante one: National Security Adviser Richard Allen's acceptance...