Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...
...that Lingle had been murdered on orders of the North Side Aiello-Zuta gang, that consequent police activity had damaged Gangster Capone's vice and gambling business on the South Side and that the "turning up" of Brothers was simply a Capone device to smooth public outrage and deflect police scrutiny...
...suggestions for the remedy of these evils come readily to mind. The installation of draft boards to deflect the current of air upward would make it possible to leave certain windows partly open continuously without any discomfort to those seated near them. A humidifying device of some sort is not as essential but might be practicable without excessive expense and at least deserves consideration. There is certainly no excuse for the totally unsatisfactory condition that now prevails...