Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Green admits his impotence when it comes to settling brawls between such behemoths. The various national and international unions, loosely bound together as a "federation," are autonomous, a law unto themselves. The best that aging Mr. Green can do is to distract the public's attention from their wasteful and costly conflicts by incessantly standing on his head, like Father William, and emitting such soothing cries as: "The officers and members of the American Federation of Labor are irrevocably committed to the preservation of our common heritage, individual liberty, our democratic form of government and our democratic institutions...
Wildcats. Others saw the situation in a somewhat different light. They felt that it was the U.S. that would be put on the shelf, unless labor deloused itself of Communists who were doing their native best to distract and disrupt the nation's defense efforts...
...only are his persecutions of minorities abhorred, but all his overtures are distrusted. No longer has he the advantage, of being able to distract, divide and suborn his opponents. All the world as yet unconquered is united in distrust...
Having a copy from Hollywood for comparison, serious cinema students will find in Pépé le Moko an excellent example of a prime Hollywood weakness-obeisance to its technical proficiency. With no scenic splendors to distract its attention, the French film studies its character with thought and patience...
...senior man in the ring, this was his privilege. He was caught almost at once, and the bull held him in the air for seconds, passing him very rapidly from one horn to the other before throwing him to the ground. By this time, someone had come up to distract the animal, and Balderas got to his feet, walked to the fence and collapsed. He was taken to the infirmary, where he died 50 minutes later after a fruitless injection of adrenalin and two blood transfusions. That was how death, as it must to all men, came to Alberto Balderas...