Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest brother, Edward, as tutor, he had a good time. No flaccid sissy, he hunted, golfed, flew, drove his cars faster than the English law or the winding English roads allowed. Sometimes he drank doubles. He knew how to use four-letter words, and how to use anger to dispel opposition. He enjoyed women and slick music, danced well, blithely played the piano and sang his own lusty versions of the season's tunes...
Near the end of his speech, Senator Wagner launched a rhetorical question: "With our country in danger, I submit there is only one question before us and it is this: Who in Albany can do most to help us dispel that danger and restore us to security...
Tall, trim Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor-eject of Burma, arrived in London impatient to dispel two nasty suspicions: 1) that many of the Burmese people had helped the enemy into their country; 2) that evacuating British forces had left Burmese earth unscorched. Said Old Harrovian Sir Reginald: "The Burmese with any stake in the country played the game by Great Britain. When the invasion began, the Japanese did not succeed in winning over a single Burman of any weight...
...writers had been prophesying about. And then they realized it with panic rather than understanding. Instead of clearing up, the war's terrible innovations thickened "the blind haze" that "folded in the passes of the world." The first task Author de Sales sets himself is to dispel that haze...
...only do the Siamese in this country hate the Nipponese, Nikrodhauanda said in a speech to the Cambridge Kiwanis Club at a Luncheon Wednesday, but also all his compatriots are opposed to their conquerors. He declared that he was extremely eager to dispel the false idea that Thailanders are helping the Japanese...