Word: distracter
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...McCarthy is so weak and unpopular ass you claim, why is he a menace? . . .First you bring him to "menace" proportions to distract us from the fact there were Reds in the Government, and then try to pooh pooh him away when this purpose has been accomplished...
...Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger), a secret convert to John's Christian teachings, tried to free...
Steadman, who jousted daily on the Editorial page of last Year's News, claims it is "a piece of red serge used by the matador for passes and to distract the bull at the kill...
...Burgheim has put his foot in his mouth when he refers to "the swarthy Segura (who) resembled a matador burying his muleta." One doesn't burry muletas any more than one buries baseball bats. They are wooden props used to hold the cape with one hand so as to distract the bull while one kills him with a sword held in the other hand. --Larry Wilde...
...Stevenson refuses to run. Although Truman seems genuinely unwilling to run, and fears for his health if he should try to spend another term in the White House, a draft-Truman movement is not impossible. Truman is not talking on this subject, since he does not want to distract the country's attention from the Republicans' internal squabbles. Although generally a President's influence declines sharply once he announces he will not run again, Truman's hold on Democratic leaders continues remarkably strong because they acknowledge him as the smartest practical politician around. If Harry Truman...