Word: detract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...369th was a fine outfit, and I do not wish to detract from its record, which was outstanding. I was a Company Commander in the 371st Infantry made up of drafted Negroes from the South. I respectfully challenge your statement that: "With one exception their battlefield record [negro combat units] was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th...
...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...
...verbal effect and throughout the evening there are constant reminders that this is Hemingway speaking, he of the fresh, young, modern, American prose style. His dialogue is excellent in many sections of the play. But it frequently becomes obtrusive, thereby ending its usefulness and going so far as to detract from the play itself. Here is a case where conscious striving for effect has killed the effect itself...