Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...blow began as soon as one of McKeldin's telegrams found its way to Washington. Bob Taft's campaign manager, David S. Ingalls, was looking for a way to distract attention from the Taft steal in Texas. Said Ingalls: ''Governor McKeldin's announcement that the expenses of delegates will be paid . . . comes pretty close to efforts at bribery and is only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added...
...sector: he turned his attention to the "hypocritical" and "frantic" critics of corruption and disloyalty in government. In a nationally broadcast speech to the Civil Service League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated to lie, under cover of congressional immunity, of course . . . They...
...found in the cold, harsh light of day." Joe is not much interested in painting people. "You don't find people around the street lamps -especially in out-of-the-way places. It'd be phony to put them in. A guy and a gal would distract from the painting-they'd look all gooey and drippy...