Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League will be a McCarthy group. "Only a few of those who have expressed interest in the League have any regard for Senator McCarthy or his tactics, and in view of recent findings which have disclosed his questionable integrity it would seem that their number will rapidly diminish," they added...
...their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...
...Second--Begin to diminish the potential destructiveness of the world's atomic stockpiles...
Author Heilbroner sides with the optimists in his collection (though he leans to the cautious hope of Keynes far more than to the bolder hopes of Adam Smith, as adapted to modern times by Economist Friedrich Hayek). Heilbroner predicts that economics will diminish somewhat as an influence on human affairs, and that morals and politics will reassert themselves more strongly. Capitalism's big problem, he feels, is not really economic, but political-the "problem of establishing itself as the arsenal, not only of production, but also of hope and meaningful freedom to the anonymous hundreds of millions...
Deadly Faith. Apprehensive critics point out that Zworykin may be increasing the very hazard that he is trying to diminish. Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike become hypnotized because the beautiful highway demands too little from them to keep them alert. If the highway itself does their driving for them, they may fall even deeper into drivers' coma. The cars will speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing...