Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That helped dispel fears that Ferguson as lawyer might traumatize surviving victims who once again found themselves trapped in an enclosed space (a witness box), menaced by the same man who had tormented them 14 months before. And it left observers free to consider the remaining issue: Can Ferguson receive a fair trial if he is being represented by a crazy man? Couldn't county court judge Donald E. Belfi prevent such a travesty...
...Arms Reduction Talks treaty. Under terms negotiated in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan will destroy all their nuclear warheads, while the U.S. and Russia will greatly reduce the numbers they possess. The fact that the ceremony went almost unnoticed testifies to how effectively Washington and Moscow have worked to dispel the once rampant dread of nuclear holocaust. On a lower level, Yevgeni Kozhokin, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, points out that thousands of ordinary Americans and Russians are working together every day on various projects and that "that's a new factor for stability that never existed...
...apartment, on a couch that's on the same scale as the South African Nobel literature laureate, the authority and energy in her words and manner dispel any illusions of weakness...
Editorials in the magazine work to dispel what Liu says is a negative stereotype attached to Generation X. Also to that end, he has edited an anthology titled "Next; Young American Writers on the New Generation...
...allay some of the fears that the Haitian's reputation as an anti-U.S. leftist and rabble-rousing demagogue have stirred. Speaking in careful English -- his native language is Creole French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year term expires, even though he has spent more than half that term...