Word: diminisher
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...anger directed at Johnson spilled over onto Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well, largely because of his unwavering support of the Viet Nam war and of the feeling among his erstwhile friends in the Americans for Democratic Action that he had "deserted" them. The result has been to diminish drastically Humphrey's hopes of ever succeeding Johnson...
...British papers appealing to Irish workers in Britain not to come home for the holidays. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have banned meat imports from the United Kingdom. Australia has ruled that emigrants from Britain can enter the country only by ship, not by air, in order to diminish the likelihood of the virus' living long enough to infect Australian herds with the disease...
...middle and end. Chronological sequence is not so much a necessity as a luxury. The slow, logical flashback has given way to the abrupt shift in scene. Time can be jumbled on the screen-its foreground and background as mixed as they are in the human mind. Plot can diminish in a forest of effects and accidents; motivations can be done away with, loose ends ignored, as the audience, in effect, is invited to become the scenarist's collaborator, filling in the gaps he left out. The purposeful camera can speed up action or slow it down; the sound...
Operation Moose. The government's decision to "diminish the debauched aspect of the city" is part of its drive to bring a little austerity to Saigon and make it more in tune with the war-wounded countryside. Both the Saigon government and U.S. officials have been concerned that the honky-tonk establishments (bearing such names as Eve, Blue Angel and the Bunny Club) are making tawdry neon jungles of such once elegant neighborhoods as the Rue Catinat of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. In March of 1966, General William Westmoreland, aware that the off-duty activities...
Names like Bogovich and Vargas do not appear on the roster of the intramural squads, and though this may hurt the quality of the game, it does not diminish the enthusiasm of the players...