Word: detract
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...Dartmouth newspaper sympathized with the letter in the Princetonian, but added by way of comment that the two men from New Jersey should take a "maturity test" themselves. Starting from a score of 100, they should detract ten points for every time they feel "a twinge of self-pity or erotic desire . . . Sixty is not passing," the paper added...
Whitney's disregard of alumni status would detract from reports that Endicott "Chub" Peabody '41, Harvard's last All-American, was a strong candidate for the vacant Directorship. Peabody was prominently mentioned by the old-guard group who believed that the job should be kept in the Harvard family. He is a member of the Whitney committee...
...recent years (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals, Opus 21), The Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter in what, for him at least...
...months passed and conference time approached, Irian became more & more involved in local Indonesian politics. President Soekarno insisted the controversial territory must belong to Indonesia. It was a popular issue; the new state's politicos drummed it up, for it helped detract attention from such internal difficulties as banditry and inflation...
Sometimes an "all-star" combination comes off; sometimes it doesn't. This one, funneled into the Savoy from New Orleans and Chicago by way of Eddie Condon's in New York, has divergencies of style that detract from its ensemble playing, though the individual performances are good...