Word: detracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Russians' satellite. A study that committee did showed that 98 per cent of what they termed "bright" high school students who did not go to college were women. But the committee's final report mentioned nothing of this finding. "They suppressed it because they felt it would detract from the emphasis of getting more trained men. Nobody really expected women to use their education and minds for anything important," she said...