Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sameness also; what gives it playfulness makes it decidedly slight. Never robust, the plot consistently thins: from the rivalry of the bordello madams emerge no comic explosions, nor any satiric didoes from the gentility of the girls. In the second half, House of Flowers craves a sea breeze to dispel its island languor, a human note for its doll-like, bird-like world...
...Lifetime Late. Driven to distraction, Alice did her best to dispel her husband's doubts, but the only man who might have provided positive evidence to support her case was gone. Less than six months after the publication of his book, Raymond Radiguet died. Alice found evidence that the young author had stolen a diary in which she had described many an intimate scene with her husband, and used it to give his book verisimilitude. Gaston was not convinced. Time and again, he would cite a passage from Devil in the Flesh and confront his wife with...
Your anti-McCarthy blatherings annoy me no end . . . A consideration of objective facts is sufficient to dispel your ill-conceived notion that the Senator is a fiend in human form...
...nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend to do some writing." A box wrapped...
...proposal, stresses that by advocating censure the club can gain "a more favorable position in the Harvard community. . . . The HYRC would not only have more opportunity to obtain faculty speakers and improve University relations which have been undermined by the effort of others in the past, but . . . would also dispel a reactionary aura others have assigned it," the Newsletter continues...