Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Pentagon took steps to dispel this strategists' nightmare. It announced that two U.S. National Guard divisions will begin moving next month to Japan. The 40th (California) now at Camp Cooke, and the 45th (Oklahoma), at Camp Polk (La.), will finish their training at Japanese bases. While stationed in Japan they will "provide additional security" for that country...
...quest for unity. At a cabinet meeting in May 1950, France's able Robert Schuman had drawn from his briefcase the dramatic proposal to integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman's name, it had been worked out mainly by astute Jean Monnet...
...proprietor of the kennel hastened to dispel the illusion. "Sure he's here," be said. "After all them phone calls from newspaper guys, I went up to check up on the mutt. He never felt better...
...Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, "I was told the difference between the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was that Senators were too old to have affairs. They only have relations. Ever since I got into the Senate, I have been trying to dispel that vile calumny-and not without success...
...still loyal believers who call themselves the Survivantists gathered around an open grave in a Delft cemetery to exhume the old bones which may or may not be those of an heir to the throne of France. A new examination of Naundorff's remains did nothing to dispel the mystery, but the Survivantists were not discouraged. Next year in the Vatican, on the 100th anniversary of her death, the secret will of Maria Therese, Duchess of Angouleme, is to be opened and read. Perhaps, hope the Survivantists, it will contain the final proof that the lost Dauphin of France...