Word: diminisher
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...objectives of rapprochement, to repeat, are essentially to diminish the ideological connotations of Castro's Cuba, to make it less of an issue. They are to put an end to an experiment in economic theory that can scarcely prove anything even to ourselves, and that, since it can never succeed, continues to throw our people and our politicians into a state of tense frustration empty of reasonableness, respect for facts, or sense of proportion...
Danska cuts restlessly from image to image, dims the screen to deceive the eye, blurs the voices to confuse the ear. Why? To diminish the impact of each part of the picture, to force the spectator to see it whole...
...have come to the day when a piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings nor for the nation of which we are part. We have been given pieces, but unlike bread, a slice of which does diminish hunger, a piece of liberty no longer suffices. Freedom is like life. You cannot be given life in installments. You cannot be given breath but not body, nor a heart but no blood vessels. Freedom is one thing-you have it all, or you are not free...
...wouldn't be surprised if Pres. Charles de Gaulle were playing for time," Macridis asserted. The French President's "reluctance grows all the time, because De Gaulle fears that England's entry into the Common Market may diminish his own power within it and hamper its development...
...also detect large meteors that chance to streak close by. It may point to far-out, undiscovered planets, or even to dark, invisible stars. Its most radical use, Dr. Lowther figures, will be to check the inverse-square law, which says that the strength of light and gravitation diminishes inversely with the square of the distance from their source. This law is regarded as one of the fundamentals of physics, but Dr. Lowther is eying it closely. If the returning radio signals from his artificial planet are either too strong or too weak to fit the theory, it may mean...