Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black Muslims. Chairman Willis, clearly embarrassed, directed his staff to give the idea a "thorough look-see." The odds are against Weltner. Though HUAC, in the late 1930's, investigated the American Nazi Bund, it is doubtful that Willis and the majority be controls will permit the Committee to divert again its attention from the left...
These children would be those who have not yet been in trouble with the police, but who may soon join a gang. PBH workers will try to divert these youngsters' energies from gangs and vandalism to athletics and schoolwork...
Humphrey's modesty and jocular self-criticism usually divert him from this pitfall, but occasionally his language does wax overly solicitous. For example, in the section on labor, he defends unions by citing their anti-communism and by noting that they have provided a cozy sense of belonging for millions of poor immigrants. The chapter studiously avoids discussion of income distribution or economic justice...
Vicious Circle. The Arabs were met at another of their "summits" to seek agreement on a plan to 1) divert the tributary streams of the Hasbani, Yarmuk and Banias rivers so that they would no longer flow into the Jordan to be used by Israel, and 2) create a united Arab military force sufficiently strong to meet the inevitable Israeli attack that would follow...
...history appear as a pitifully short one, which might explain, but hardly excuse, the lack of political and spiritual maturity plainly demonstrated by the insertion of such a venomous outburst of hatred as your article on Mozambique [Aug. 14]. Your evaluation of Portuguese Africa is a futile effort to divert public attention from U.S. racial problems, which are the most shameful in the world. LUIS CARDOSO DE MENEZES Lisbon...