Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they last for only a year and, thus, can come from annual donations. The visiting lecturer should stay at one of the Houses, coming in close contact with the students there while strengthening the House structure. As an appointee for one year, the artist would not be required to divert his energies into scholarship. Both he and the student might well find the experience more than "(you may say) satisfactory...
...before the election the bits and pieces of the crisis were beginning to fit back into place as the British and French agreed to order a ceasefire. No nation, the free world had relearned, could afford to divert its attention very long or very far from the Soviets, always the threat, always implacable, always there...
NICKEL STOCKPILING will be halted on Jan. 1 for first time since Korean war. Office of Defense Mobilization thinks new sources of supply from Canada and Cuba will soon lick shortage of defense metal", already has big enough hoard to divert 25 million Ibs. of nickel slated for stockpile to private industry in fourth quarter...
...without strings," actually the goods and services (hydroelectric and mining projects) which the Russians are offering Indonesia will place Soviet "technicians" in strategic points in the sprawling republic, which already has a well-organized Communist Party (estimated membership: 200,000). The Indonesians, however, were said to be planning to divert Russian aid to the islands of Sumatra and the Celebes...
...through the canal−and we cannot afford, as you can, to have them go round the longer and more expensive way. This is what we are telling Nasser." France's Foreign Minister Pineau made the same point to the conference, in a shrewd effort to divert the issue from Nasser's cry of colonialism...