Word: diminisher
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...bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...
...size of the task would diminish but there would be work for a long time to come. The Army figured it would need a minimum 1,500,000 on July 1-not, Eisenhower was careful to point out, as a permanent military establishment but as an interim force "to secure the peace...
...Japan had never existed, the events of last week in Europe would have marked the end of the greatest war in human history. The fact that this war was only part of a still greater war could not diminish its epic size, its overwhelming agony, or its pervasive consequences...
...mortars and rockets still fire heavily from the recesses of the northern plateau. Even on the night of D-plus-four we caught hundreds of rounds. There is still no point on the island which the Japs cannot bring under fire easily, though their chances of accuracy diminish as we slowly edge forward up the high ground. Soon they will no longer be looking down our throats...
...rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...