Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards-But Not for Me, Gone with the Wind, Take the A Train-that dramatically displayed her talents. She can swing upbeat ballads in a light-textured voice or noodle a bit of the blues in tones as soft as velvet. She can modulate with shrugging ease, swell or diminish volume with a sure instinct for melody and lyrics...
...there any prospect of a balanced budget in fiscal 1960, beginning a year from now? In reply to this press-conference question, the President said that he expected the deficit to "diminish" in 1960, but that it would take an "awful shrinkage" to bring $10 billion down to zero. In short...
...guilty," he wrote, "but it is my destiny that I must be guilty"), and Elvira was driven to following him, dressed as a man. As a last resort, she slipped camphor in her husband's pocket on the theory that it had a debilitating effect and would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When he died in Brussels at 65 after an operation for cancer of the throat, his last words...
...waves of public opinion now hitting the public schools, small independent schools like Middlesex can continue to operate pretty much as they please. If the front-page place of education in the past eight months has had any effect in relation to the prep school, it has been to diminish the public conception of the private school as a "nest of snobs." While the larger private school, or even the very good public school, may offer a better and more varied textbook education, neither can provide the individual attention and the chance for personal development which, ideally anyway, the small...
...trudging up to the oaken doors and painted windows through which no light will enter for the next two weeks, the men of 14 Plympton Street this morning agreed to diminish light all over the University, and thus will not appear in public until Friday, will hide beneath bushels next week except for Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday...