Word: diminisher
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...today the Soviet Union does not intend to permit reunification, and that as long as the Soviet Union has that policy, Germany will not be reunified. The question now is whether the Soviet Union will sign a treaty with the East German authorities which will increase tension rather than diminish it. What we find to be so dangerous is the claim that that treaty will deny us our rights in West Berlin, rights which we won through the war, rights which were agreed to by the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France...
Calculated Leak. Another sign that the heat is temporarily off is Nikita Khrushchev's apparent new willingness to diminish his menaces. At a Kremlin reception, Khrushchev told correspondents that "for the time being, it is not good for Russia and the U.S. to push one another." In a well-planted leak to West German Ambassador Hans Kroll last week, Khrushchev tentatively offered the West a set of modified proposals to end the crisis...
...bluntness was unwelcome in the Soviet Union. He was put to work digging the Moscow subway, was jailed twice and escaped to France in 1948, reporting bitterly that of 6,000 "Spanish comrades'' in Russia, nearly 5,000 had been killed. His disgust with Communism did not diminish his hatred of Franco...
...Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, who helped block the national bills in the House Rules Committee, turned around and voted for the impacted-areas bill, under which he will get $1,245,000 for school construction, maintenance and operation in his district. The two-year bill will diminish incentive for any general aid bill proposed next year...
Passion for Quality. Now back on the job after his third hospitalization for cancer in 18 months. Fred Maytag staunchly says: '"I do not intend to diminish my activities in any respect." He is acutely aware that Grandfather Maytag's most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose...