Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain declared that being in the WAACs is hard work, and that any women who would join them merely because she thinks wearing a uniform is glamorous had better dispel these ideas from her mind...
...live much as we do and have the same religions and much the same politics. That is why the United States boys have come thousands of miles to help us win this war." >"Remember that British people have a reputation for being standoffish, and anything you can do to dispel this illusion will help to foster good feeling. . . . The first time an American approaches the counter and asks 'Howya, baby?' you will probably think he is being impudent. By the time several dozen men have said it, you will come to the conclusion that all Americans...
...close fight for its perennial supremacy in the House league, the Winthrop hockey men will have to work hard to dispel the threat of Adams hard skating sextet. Although statistically the Puritans have an edge, having beaten Eliot 6-1 after a 4 to 2 victory by the Goldcoasters over the same men, the outcome of the race is still very much in doubt...
...experienced, fast, and, oddly enough, untried. All eight men have seen action before, but rarely in the position which they now hold. Thus the efficiency of the present combination is in doubt, but the presence of Captain Dick Gifford at inside forward and Buss Sawhill at center should dispel much of the uneasiness in MacDonald's mind...
...close and friendly cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. One view was that Cárdenas was recalled because of pressure from labor and other groups opposing such politicos as the President's brother Maximino, Minister of Communications and Public Works. Another was that only Cardenas could dispel the apathy toward the war effort among the peasants. A third and far sounder view was that, in sincerely seeking to unite all the political forces of his country, Manuel Avila Camacho meant what he said about "a better order of things, a better democracy and a better world...