Word: distractibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Potential jurors are influenced "from the moment the trial judge announces that a case will be televised." Filming or taping may distract trial jurors; viewing the edited results may prejudice them. Seeing the original trial on film may sway potential jurors in a new trial, if there...
...claims to be a variant of that novel of religious crisis that West has written before. But this time the claim is spurious. Though Maxwell Amberley twitches and jumps to plenty of religious alarums, the genuine spiritual conflicts never quite make it onto the stage. Instead, big worldly events distract the reader from his wholly justified suspicion that the business of the soul is being carried on in false coin...
Something, Sweet Something. Many of his colleagues wondered too. To make his point, Churchill heckled, stormed, pleaded, reasoned, even thumbed his nose and stuck out his tongue. From his front-row seat, a few square inches of green leather on the front bench, he loved to distract opponents by rumbling softly to himself while they were speaking, but reacted violently to interruption of his own words...
...learn just one thing: he can't let little things distract him. He has to concentrate on playing squash...
...name time, Galbraith continued, the Chinese must have anticipated the Cuban crisis, and hoped it would distract the attention of the United States from anything they might do in India. This view is plausible, he said, since the Chinese withdrawal followed almost immediately upon the removal of missiles from Cuba by the Soviet Union...