Word: distractibility
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...1950s is remembered more for its sociology than for its politics. After a decade of depression and four years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved by abstinence...
...more sour speculations about White House motives was offered last week by Ross Perot in an interview with U.S. News & World Report. The Texan suggested that Clinton was out to "get a little war going" to "distract the American people" from economic hard times and broken campaign promises. An indignant Stephanopoulos responded that Perot's assertions were "outrageous" and "ill-considered and intemperate...
...idea, instead, was to pump in the gas and create enough chaos to distract anyone intent on either firing back or orchestrating a mass suicide. Perhaps those who were wavering would come...
...care. Any outcome will only be a loss for Russia. The referendum is needed by the Yeltsin team to deflect the people's attention from real failures in the economy. This is in the tradition of our Communist Party bureaucracy. Whenever things went wrong, they tried to distract attention, as in ancient Rome, by providing bread and circuses...