Word: distraction
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...upon a man busily pasting wallpaper over his mural history of medicine in California. After urging the paperhanger to desist, he bustled desperately off to find the dean of the college. Sorry, said the dean, "they are very interesting, but ... for years now faculty members have complained. The murals distract students attending lectures...
Ballistic exports, still examining the two smoke bombo which the robbers used to distract attention during their crime, said that the implements could very possibly be war surplus material of the type currently being distributed in New England...
...Amber enthusiasts may not realize that they are not getting what they paid for. By way of insuring a reputed $6 million investment in the picture, Darryl Zanuck & Co. have performed near-miracles of cinematic legerdemain that distract attention from Amber's uninteresting innocence. Chief distractions...
...Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
...ignorance of the political side of their job. Said a colonel: "Conditions are quite disturbed in northern Greece. You can even get shot at-but perhaps you have heard of it." Said another officer, who is helping train the Greek Army: "I almost never read the news. It might distract me from my work...