Word: undercutting
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Another problem is that the loss of freedom to ignore the academic would tend to undercut time consuming extra-curricular activities. But the frenetic character of the extracurricular at Harvard could well stand alteration...
...dozen years the musical battle raged, from high chambers of the Nazi Party to high balconies of Austrian concert halls. Aging Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, backed by Goebbels, clearly could not stomach the competition given him by young Conductor Herbert von Karajan, a Goring protege, and undercut him at every opportunity. Von Karajan (pronounced approximately carryon) coldly played a waiting game. His attitude: "I have time." He was right. When Furtwängler died in 1954, Von Karajan assumed all the old man's prestige and more. Today, Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan is lord of a unique musical empire...
...undercut Perón's pretensions to righteousness, an official investigating committee reported that during his twelve years in power, Peronista Congressmen raised their combined personal assets from 6,650,000 pesos to a fat 206,000,000 pesos -among the biggest gainers being the pair who offered the greatest number of congressional resolutions of homage...
...devotion to peace, without suggesting any abandonment of principle. The Russians had obliged with a demonstration of the old truculence and rigidity that had been such a helpful lesson in anti-Communism in the immediate postwar years. As a result, the basis of neutralism in Europe and Asia was undercut; it would now be harder than ever to claim that the Communists and the West were equally aggressive forces...
...apparent attempt to undercut the first meeting of the Political Forum, John R. Thomson '57, president of the Young Republican Club, sent a letter four weeks ago to Senator John W. Bricker to dissuade him from keynoting a proposed Forum debate on the Bricker Amendment, it was learned yesterday...