Word: detract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that from Alabama alone about the March 19th issue-all critical. If they didn't have at least that many ignorant people down there, they would kick Wallace off his throne within 24 hours. Some idiot may assassinate Dr. King before this fight is over, but that will detract nothing from his accomplishments. They shot Gandhi, Lincoln and Kennedy, but monuments are erected to their memories. They had clubs and bullwhips in Christ's day but they didn't have rednecks and Ku Klux Klansmen walking along dropping tear-gas grenades beside the helpless victims. 1 have...
Kakasa said he was "very shocked" to learn of Malcolm's death. "The fact that Malcolm was what he was, and that he was allowed to be, spoke well, I think for the United States. But the fact that he was killed in this way will detract from that credit...
...befits the designer who is known as the idea man of the Paris collections, Courrèges came through with eye-poppers aplenty-flesh-colored leotards beneath embroidered net slacks, ten-gallon hats, skirts cut three inches above the knee-gimmicky, but none of them too gimmicky to detract from an integral purity of line and shape...
Dietz, who filed the appeal, claims that the bridge, will detract from the street's appearance by blocking air and light. Visibly angry at Monday's meeting, Dietz said, "I will not give up the fight until I think some right is done...
...idea for a pedestrian mall may have come from Sheldon Dietz '41 who has persistently fought the Coop's new annex on the grounds that present plans would detract from Palmer St.'s aesthetic qualities...