Word: dispell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there were ever any doubts that baseball writer Roger Angell has a unique talent as an observer extraordinaire of our national pasttime, Season Ticket should quickly dispel them...
Council members say that setting up a graduate chapter of PBH would instill camaraderie among the different schools as well as allow students of different graduate schools apply their expertise in public service work. They add it would also help dispel the stereotype that some of the graduate schools churn out "money-hungry materialists...
...their Howard Beach neighborhood to his death on a freeway, had been acquitted of murder and convicted, along with a third youth, on the lesser charge of manslaughter. A fourth had been found innocent of all charges. Though the gray decision satisfied the victim's mother, it could not dispel all the passions that have arisen among both blacks and whites since the tragedy one year ago made Howard Beach a synonym for racial tension...
...scuffle around on the Los Angeles music scene. He was playing with Stewart by the age of 20, rocking out in performance, then going home at night to write "these real melodic, pretty songs." The fact that he finally has those songs out on record still does not entirely dispel confusion over what kind of music this is. Ask Jarvis about a jazzman like, say, Keith Jarrett, and he will profess great admiration, then add, "I feel closer to Floyd Cramer...
Today about 95% of in-patient treatment centers in the U.S. use a 28-day drying-out program developed in 1949 at Hazelden. For the first few days, staff help patients through the tremors and anxiety of withdrawal. From that point on, the emphasis is on counseling. The aims: dispel the alcoholic's self-delusions about drinking, drive home an understanding of alcohol's destructive properties, and make it clear that the only reasonable course is to stop drinking -- permanently. Some centers use Antabuse, a drug that induces vomiting and other symptoms if the patient has a drink. Schick Shadel...