Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. new JCS Chairman Nathan Twining, and outgoing International Cooperation Administrator John B. Hollister. They spoke eloquently, but perhaps too generally of the urgent necessity for more foreign-aid money to protect the security of the free world. But they failed to dispel the statistical myth of the "surplus" $9.5 billion...
...reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp: 'Go on without me. I can't make it.'" But millions of boys wore their fleur-de-lis emblems proudly, millions of parents...
...reporting of a complex subject. One of the larger pitfalls involved in the fallout problem is that of assuming that science and research will take care of the matter in good time. As a member of the scientific fraternity, I should say that although we have done little to dispel the idea that researchers can invariably come up with the right thing at the right time, this is far from true; scientific methods are reasonably above reproach, but those who use them are subject to human shortcomings. The simple principles by which we have so far lived are now inadequate...
...that a Harvard alumnus can donate money to a Radcliffe fund and still receive full credit for giving to his University, it becomes increasingly difficult to dispel the old adage that "Harvard is not coeducational in any respect except in point of fact...
...good health, or that he isn't up to the job or is relaxing and doesn't care to fulfill his responsibilities. The persistently adverse propaganda about the President is hard to understand in view of the presence of thousands of alert reporters in Washington who can dispel such misinformation...