Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the rigor of their studies and the dearth of diversion in pious Boston, students still managed to exercise their time-honored right to cut classes.
Since 1953, Guinness has made no more than token appearances in the theater-in Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, in The Prisoner in London. In 1955 he succumbed at last to Hollywood's enticements and starred with Grace Kelly in The Swan. He liked Hollywood ("so friendly...
AUSTRALIAN TRADE with Japan is looking up after years of bitter enmity. Chances are good that Japanese will land contracts for two Australian dams, one power plant, and two water-diversion tunnels.
¶ His trip to Tokyo should have been a relaxing diversion for crack Amateur Golfer Frank Pace Jr. President of the General Dynamics Corp. and onetime Secretary of the Army, Pace was simply a spectator, watching Japan's Torakichi Nakamura and Koichi Ono win the International Golf Association'...
Tactical Diversion. In Rochester, after Charles Chiarenza was awakened by loud pounding on the kitchen door of his ground-floor apartment, sleepily groped for the light, investigated and found no one there, he returned to the bedroom just in time to see-but not to stop-a hand reach through...