Word: down-playing
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...insist that Randall Terry, Joseph Scheidler, Operation Rescue and the Pro-life Action League are only "a few members of the pro-life movement" is to down-play completely the thousands of women they have harassed (not to mention the substantial amount of hours they have spent in prison...
Despite her strong leadership presence on the field, Donahoe is quick to down-play her influence on the team. "Erin Matias [senior half-back], our captain, does a great job of commanding pretty much everybody in front of her," she said. "She's our top leader, and she makes my job a lot easier. I just try to do my best to direct Erin and the fullbacks...
...First Lady and her p.r.-conscious operatives have tried to down-play galas in favor of uplifting public forays. Lately the coverage has tilted more toward the latter. Last Christmastime, the President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
...British government also went to some effort to down-play the affair, if only to avoid giving aid and comfort to the anti-cruise movement in Britain, where 32 U.S. cruise missiles are currently based. By contrast, the opposition Labor Party quickly seized on the report as an argument against further deployment of U.S. cruises in Western Europe. Charging that the flight over Scandinavia showed how "unreliable and extremely dangerous" the missiles are, Labor's defense spokesman, Denzil Davies, contended that "it is time for the superpowers to negotiate these weapons out of existence." A senior British official suggested wryly...
...delegates behind him: 2,008. Mondale pledged to work for "a unified convention," saying that he would make personal appeals to both Hart and Jackson to join him in that effort. He conceded under questioning that the friction among the candidates had been great, but he tried to down-play it. "Our Democratic Party is a family," he said, "and as families sometimes do, we squabble. But our bonds are stronger than our battles...