Word: deflecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mental level of radio, because it can deal with adult problems, "and we don't get chichi or phony about them." In TV, he has tackled such subjects as adultery and Lesbianism, both frowned upon in radio and movies, without causing any scandalized uproar. "We deflect tension," Miner explains. "We don't say people are going to bed together, we just have them...
...friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give exporters "direct incentives." Said Hoffman: "Practically all Europe's exports are furnished by private producers. Governments may set targets ; they may exhort; but unless sales in dollar markets bring...
...locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern new stations as well. Now he is pondering the biggest problem of all: finding a better and more profitable way to handle...
...rental system remains the greatest operative inefficiency. Though the cities and towns of the metropolitan area pay the MTA's yearly deflect, they still demand rental fees from the transit lines for the use of their streets. In Boston, the MTA must pay for the use of all subways and elevated structures because the 'Boston Transit Department built and owns them; the MTA pays the city of Boston over $2,000,000 yearly. The most flagrant inconsistency is that the MTA, though State owned must pay the State for the use of the Cambridge-Park Street tunnel...
...come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession of ants running toward an anthill; spiders spun webs; a butterfly opened and closed its wings; the clover, the daisies, the devil's-paint-brush...