Word: detract
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...employees, including 8,586 special agents, has over the years been astonishingly uncontaminated by outside political influence. The number of FBI agents convicted of a crime: none. Hoover's bureau set the standard and wrote the rules for effective law enforcement throughout the world. No criticism could detract from his extraordinary achievement-the difficult establishment in a turbulent democracy of a national law-enforcement agency that was honest, expert and free from partisan taint...
...often as possible, with as much support as possible. But as we were careful to note before, any student strike or antiwar protests must center primarily on the war. The lessons of the 1970 student strike are clear: actions aimed at universities are misdirected and serve only to detract from the overall effectiveness of antiwar demonstrations. The best example of this misdirection is the current mess at Columbia, where students and police have clashed off and on for the past week, proving nothing and turning public opinion against student protest...
Gregg Allman's vocals are strong throughout the album, but his organ solos more often detract then add to the instrumental jams...
...does not detract one bit from this impressive young Georgian to point out that his nomination was not the "first" so widely claimed for it. We must go back just short of a century for the pioneering precedent...
...father snapped back and forth, cracking like a whip. A hideous smell compounded of burning flesh, excrement and urine filled the death chamber." Occasionally Doctorow overdoes his aggressiveness. There are too many stray references to "volts" and "currents," too many gory inserts about earlier methods of execution. Both detract from the starkness of the tragedy. But these are quibbles. Doctorow has produced a relatively rare commodity: a serious novel on a distasteful subject that succeeds out of energy, conviction and an old-fashioned respect for drama...