Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders were eager for a signal that he was seriously committed to the "two-track" decision reached by NATO in 1979, which linked the stationing of new nuclear weapons in Europe to a renewed effort by the U.S. to negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive...
Stockman said he told the president he has "one purpose... and that is to dispel any notion" that he doesn't have faith in the Reagan Administration's economic policies...
...running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine, and now runs regularly, though briefly. Says he: "Running, in any sport, is unquestionably the best way to dispel free-floating angst...
...Reagan Administration has done little to dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...protagonist, Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through...