Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since both shellings and violations did greatly diminish, Johnson had a de facto, although not a de jure justification for halting the bombing. Thus, when the Communists struck last week, President Nixon was confronted not so much with the violation of an agreement as with a seeming change in the mutually convenient status quo. He would have had to make a major policy decision in his own right to retaliate, and that is what he does not yet seem ready or willing...
...Youth Fare will diminish the humanity of airports. Scenes of haggard youths cradling green bills in their hands will forever disappear. At night, the fluorescent lights will shine on empty seats...
Domestically, Sentinel is most objectionable because it distorts national priorities and absorbs billions of dollars that should be invested in our cities. As Vietnam costs diminish, the arms racers stand poised to absorb the financial bonuses which belong in a re-structured program against poverty...
...failure of slang to make English more exciting. "No sweat and out of sight begin to lose their charm on the fiftieth hearing, and groovy, Ricky, wiggy, unreal, and wild, by pushing out nearly every other adjective in a generation's speech, don't expand the language, they diminish it," he says...
...observing that John Steinbeck "tended to diminish humans to the condition of animals, to reduce his characters to their simple biological needs and desires," [Dec. 27] Edmund Wilson commits the critic's unpardonable sin of applying his own standards to another's work. For to make this observation, one must first assume that man is, as Christian philosophy dictates, the earthly king of the universe. This assumption, however, goes entirely against the grain of Mr. Steinbeck's philosophy, which was based upon an intense, pantheistic love of nature, and led him to "animalize" his characters in order...