Word: detract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carefully Badoglio rehearsed his intention to respect the "untrammeled right of the people of Italy to choose their own form of democratic government when peace is restored." Carefully the Big Three repeated after him their understanding that "nothing can detract from the absolute and untrammeled right of the people of Italy by constitutional means to decide on the democratic form of government they will eventually have...
...things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...
...stage was the nation. Just before the President stepped to the foreground, there was a commotion in the wings. But John L. Lewis, even with a well-timed gesture of patriotism, did not detract from the fundamental importance of what the President had to say. Although speaking directly to the miners, the President addressed himself in a broader sense not to individuals or to groups but to the nation...
...which we are manufacturing, which allows a 360° visibility by the use of a Lumarith dome, and the base of it is a tobacco hogshead. The total cost of this unit is less than $25 and shelters the sentries from rain, snow and wind, and yet does not detract from their efficiency. It is made so that it can be shipped in sections and assembled in approximately 20 minutes and if the need calls for moving, can be quickly unhooked, taken down and moved to another location...
...omission of a House section, formerly a resume of the several Freshman dormitories, and the pages which in the past have been devoted to the Yardlings' social activities. However, since the members of '46 have had comparatively few class get-togethers, it is not expected that this will detract greatly from the scope covered by the book...