Word: detract
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Which is not to detract from the reputation or charm of Jacqueline Onassis...
...gimmicky suits only detract from the woman within, and she has to be some woman to make them work...
...Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta National and the Masters tournament with an iron hand. "We don't want to look at the ugly things the year round." No tennis courts, no swimming pool, no children's playgrounds adorn the Augusta National-nothing, in short, to detract from golf...
Winners of last week's contest are eligible, and encouraged, to enter. Since we don't want to detract from last-minute studying, answers are due at the CRIMSON on February 5; winners will be announced the first week after intercession...
...only man in his Cabinet that the general deigns to call by his first name (everyone else, both friend and foe, refers to the premier as "Pompon"), the bushy-browed Pompidou has long been De Gaulle's unspoken choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly endorsing Pompidou. But in his press conference he came as close as he ever has to anointing Pompidou by blessing "those who gathered in Lille to adapt our conceptions and inspirations to changing conditions...