Word: diminisher
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...special attention), the resounding firmness of the brasses--all these are easily the equal of almost any professional orchestra. The strings were perhaps too eager to glow wtih romantic intensity, or what-ever; at any rate their tone was often thin, harsh, and somewhat forced. This did not, however, diminish Mr. Senturia's achievement; the pastoral plainness of the second movement and the terse drama of the fourth were presented forcefully and with great care...
...managed to tarnish the image of the U.N., and to diminish the effectiveness of its Secretary-General, even though the small nations rallied to Hammarskjold's defense. But Khrushchev also had his failures. The uncommitted nations refused to stampede. And if his actions were designed to test the mettle and temper of the new Kennedy Administration, he found it unmistakably firm...
...million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife to you in order to make your race diminish. Islam permits four wives." So all-corrupting was Christian colonialism's influence, says Mohammed Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram, that it has even caused good Arabic names to be debased and mispronounced. His examples: the name of Guinea's President, Sékou Tour...
...save money and diminish surplus, payments in kind should be substituted for monetary subsidies now meted out under the present Soil Bank program. Such a procedure will not only reduce crop levels in grain elevators, but will also eliminate the present something-for-nothing benefits going to farmers who let the government pay their bills merely by threatening to plant extra acreage...
...power of small states. Under either a popular or proportional system, big-city ethnic minorities and labor unions would lose their power to swing entire states. Deep-South Democrats and Farm-Belt Republicans could no longer deliver unbroken chunks of electoral votes-and their power in party councils would diminish...