Word: detract
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...city. The John F. Kennedy Memorial was placed in the heart of Harvard Square to bring it closer to the University and make it a truly "urban memorial." Leaving the memorial to be surrounded with large ugly buildings will only show the worst of urban America and will naturally detract from both the physical stature and the spirit of the entire complex...
...made only to put a bullet through a living body, in order to kill." Most ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner controls to keep arms out of irresponsible hands...
...Goulet, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Jane Morgan, Teresa Brewer, Connie Francis, Bobby Vinton-providing everything from songs and arrangements to lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits to an FM receiver hooked up with the sound system...
...bluntly discarded a recent suggestion by President Johnson that the two countries exchange visits of newsmen, scientists and scholars. Under the headline OLD TUNE, NEW CONSPIRACY, the newspaper called the idea "a sheer daydream." It accused the U.S. of "feigning eagerness to improve Sino-U.S. relations to detract public attention from its deployments for aggression against China...
Goethals emphasized yesterday that this new post will not detract from his primary concerns: education, research, and students. He will continue to teach his popular undergraduate course in adolescence, Soc Rel 152. He also plans to his duties as assistant dean of the College, working with Dean Monro on problems of the sophomore year and the new House assignment system...