Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allow the technological age to alienate us from aesthetic experience. We can't look at nature without seeing beer cans. "Pop" and "Op" art have dominated the art market for more than two years; but they don't present a new trend. Instead, they undercut traditional artistic values and divert out attention away from aesthetic experience as a defense against this discomforting sense of alienation...
China opposes India, he said, because the Indian government is attempting to eliminate poverty by democratic rather than methods. External pressure by the Chinese forces India to divert poverty funds for the military effort, Nehru explained...
...Dartmouth students had originally intended to spray John Harvard's statue, one of the organizers told the CRIMSON last night, but the statue was too heavily guarded. Three of the students attempted to divert Yard police, but they were unsuccessful...
...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
...shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from the Jordan...