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These feats in the sky went far to dispel any lingering fears that the U.S. lags behind the U.S.S.R. in space or missile technology. But quite apart from their cold-war significance, the technological feats added up to a splendid week for science, which transcends national boundaries, and for the boldness of the human spirit, which now transcends even the limits of the earth...
Sensing the doubts, Dick Nixon set out last week to dispel them with a pledge of a dynamic, hard-hitting campaign that is already in the works. "Anyone who does not recognize that we are in for the fight of our lives must be smoking opium," he told a huge Republican rally in Lincoln, Neb. "I believe we will win, but we must expect this to be one of the closest and hardest fought campaigns in America's political history...
Mere Mannerisms. Half a dozen variations on this theme help to dispel any notion of Dickens as irrepressibly comic. Other "best stories" of Editor Zabel's choosing include second-rate ghost thrillers and third-rate detective stories. At novel length, Dickens could create memorable caricatures, e.g., Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Madame Defarge. In the short stories, his characters are mere mannerisms. In the novels, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller produce idiosyncratic dialogue; in the short stories there is only an endless chatty...
...committee on cultural exchange, which included Rosenblum, proposed that America vigorously encourage an exchange of people from all social strata, not just students and politicians, to emphasize the essential similarities of the two national groups and to dispel distrust of their superficial differences...
Before the contest, Munro had expressed doubt that any member of the present team could replace departed senior Roger Tuckerman at center. But Ekpebu, substituting for Keith Lowe midway in the first period, quickly began to dispel Munro's fears...