Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Women's Lib is a threat to the family, many experts believe that its more sensible goals could strengthen it. As women become increasingly emancipated?by child-care centers and equal-employment practices?they could have more time for intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Thus although their housekeeping role may diminish, they could become less frustrated and better wives. Though the idea is still shocking to many, some experts feel that certain women are better mothers if they are not with their children...
...travel by cab were like ex-smokers who find that they can savor food again. Among other things, they rediscovered the unfamiliar art of walking. Those who drove their own cars found that without 12,000 taxis, the streets were almost unnaturally serene and clear. Air pollution seemed to diminish somewhat, along with the noise of horns and the city's general apoplexy. Taxi users welcomed a respite from cabbies' customary harangues. Mainly, there was that remote, subversive inkling that occurs only when routine is abruptly broken: "Maybe we don't really have to live like this...
Continual Firing. The testimony of Thomas Turner, 24, now a student at the University of Nebraska, did nothing to diminish the stark picture drawn by Sledge. From a position some 75 yds. from the drainage ditch, he was witness to much of the killing there. His testimony clarifies some of the discrepancies between earlier versions of what took place. He, too, swore that both Calley and Meadlo had fired at groups of civilians. "Continually," he said, "small groups of people were brought up, and they would be put into the ditch and fired upon by Lieut. Calley...
...countries, maintaining political control over them and preventing any semblance of freedom to exist in the lives of the people, Portugal has kept some respect as a European nation. With the onset of the liberation struggles in these countries she felt threatened. Her control over them is beginning to diminish and she is trying desperately to fight history by reinstating her power of complete domination. These struggles by the freedom-loving peoples of Africa to gain control of their own countries have been gaining strength...
...calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the low birthrate days of the Depression. For one thing, those relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They may not have forgotten, however, that William the Conqueror's original census in 1087 was called, with a certain prophetic ring, the Doomsday Book...