Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polished -- and a bit calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them anything we want and then leave. For a moment you have available...
...choice to matriculate at Harvard meant tennis would not be the top priority in Mulvehal's life, which helps her to dispel any deleterious pressure to succeed on the court...
...article also attempted to dispel a rumor that a female student had been killed in the protest. The woman, it said, was hit by a car as she returned from the demonstration. Many students believe police killed her, although it appeared the newspaper's account was correct...
Allowing Mlot-Mroz to speak would have accomplished a number of things. Primarily, it would have proven that left-wing activists actually believe that freedom is more than a convenient rhetorical phrase. It also would have done a great deal to dispel the idea that the leftists are nothing but dangerous reds with a paternalistic, totalitarian ideas about controlling who hears what. If the left wants America or Harvard to be a held to a higher standard, we must be ready to apply those higher standards to ourselves...
Throughout the region, fears stirred at the prospect of uncontrolled radioactivity beneath the sea. Along with its reactors, the Mike-class sub was equipped to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Soviet military spokesmen refused to say whether any such weapons were aboard, but Moscow acted quickly to try to dispel international concerns. Only hours after returning home from London, Mikhail Gorbachev sent reassuring messages to President Bush, British Prime Minister Thatcher and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The power plant on the stricken sub had been shut down before the vessel sank, declared Gorbachev, who added, "The possibility...