Word: dispelled
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Here at Harvard, the Natalie posters have shown real pictures of what a baby looks like and have showcased facts marshaled to dispel the myth that a fetus is nothing more than a random blob of cells. Our posters have been torn down by hundreds, labeled offensive and called a “vicious campaign against women.” How information about a developing baby is any of those things, I don’t know. To say that a simple exclamation point, a Dr. Seuss quote or the naming of the child spells manipulation is a stretch. While...
...Advocate has a reputation for being artsy and pretentious, and we’d like to dispel that reputation by working with another organization,” said Brown, one of the readers and a member of the Advocate...
Popular imagination regards the 1950s as an era of stability, prosperity and equality. But Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen has a mission to dispel these conventional, nostalgic notions about the postwar years...
Masteller mentioned excitedly that “finding the right objects is like uncovering a mystery—as you choose, you begin to understand the life of the objects.” Visitors may uncover their own mysteries and dispel stereotypes about India as they view this well-researched and organized display of art from colonial India. —Christopher W. Platts
...more than 2 million people. The government cultivates a cult of personality around Kim--citizens are told to treat him as a demigod, and pictures of father and son hang in every public building in Pyongyang--but popular disgruntlement is growing, as North Koreans returning from China's boomtowns dispel any notion that life is better inside the Hermit Kingdom...