Word: dispells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized this united stand in order to dispel reports that the United States, Britain, France, and West Germany were split over how far to go in blocking the Soviet Union's move to drive the Western Big Three out of the divided city...
...they prove nothing else, the arguments over Harvard participation in the National Student Association at least dispel the Silent Generation myth. The pro-and-con has been noisy and thoughtful, and today's referendum will reflect the views of a relatively well-informed electorate...
...dull affairs at best, involving a hasty scrawl on a mimeographed ballot before one settles down to supper; and today's promises to be no more exciting. But with as important a measure as the Re-evaluation Report coming before the College, the Council would have done well to dispel the cloud of apathy surrounding its proposed revamping. For it will take two-thirds of the ballots cast to get an improved Student Council...
...WITH JIGS! One night the whites burned a Negro in effigy on the school flagpole. The white hoodlums proclaimed a school strike, sent off a telegram to Governor Faubus: IN ORDER TO STAY INTEGRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. Said Faubus, in theory a state Governor with police powers to dispel unlawful assemblies: "I don't know what to do about the Van Buren situation. I'll have to check into it." And although the great majority of Van Buren's white children ignored the strike call and went to school, it was the hoodlums who won. Number...
...believe," said he, "that a [summit] meeting held under proper [U.N.] auspices would, on the one hand, dispel the false allegations that there is aggression being carried on by the U.S. or by the United Kingdom in the Middle East. It would, on the other hand, I think, show the danger of indirect aggression, which has been so often condemned by the U.N. Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects...