Word: diversionism
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While Mao Tse-tung's armies took a mauling in Korea, his commissars were having trouble with the home front. Helped by the diversion of Red troops and resources northward, anti-Communist guerrillas had rattled the lid off south China. Lately, in the curious way which Communist governments often...
Using two peach baskets and combining the fundamentals of "duck-on-the-rock,"* lacrosse and Rugby, he began the game as a diversion for the students during the winter months of 1891 . . .
He describes the interiors of Mongol yurts and lamaseries, observes with fascination the diversion of technical talents that once conquered Asia into the construction of more & more intricate prayer wheels. He describes without flurry Mongol butchering (directions: cut a hole in the animal's side, pull out the heart...
Diversion. In St. Louis, Imaldo R. Simone explained why he had put in two false fire alarms, each bringing four engine companies to the scene: he was "overworked and feeling tired."
A naval diversion was staged at Inchon, where the U.S. cruiser St. Paul and two destroyers pumped shells ashore. A few South Korean marines steamed boldly into Inchon harbor in an 80-ft. gunboat, tied up at a dock, skirmished ashore for four hours, killed 40 Chinese and sailed away...