Word: dispels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herb Klein is generally well liked by newsmen, who applaud the smooth efficiency with which he runs things-right down to making sure that reporters' luggage is delivered to their hotel rooms. But he does little to dispel their growing bitterness. Klein is well aware that reporters in both camps are predominantly Democratic (and their publishers predominantly Republican). The ratio is 2 to 1 for Kennedy, according to one informal straw vote aboard the Nixon press plane. But most reporters insist they know how to separate their own convictions from their reporting, and say that Nixon's assistants...
...deeply committed Harvard professor has added spice to a dull presidential campaign. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., professor of History, has just published a short book attempting to dispel the notion that Nixon and Kennedy are "the Gold Dust Twins of American Politics...
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...