Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because they won't work and even if they did, the survivors will envy the dead. Shelters divert our attention from the real issue, which is preventing nuclear conflict. I think civil defense is no defense...
...manuscripts must have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert the uncertain shopper's eye from the enduring children's classics. But among the 1,600 children's books published in the U.S. last year are a few that are the best in years...
Thalidomide may have properties in it that divert the usual scheme or flow of messages as in DNA and thusly prevents the overall or complete processing of the incubation of the ovule or the exact and proper creation of the embryo...
...Chinese attack in the east was intended to divert Indian attention from Ladakh, it has failed miserably. The threat to Assam has focused Indian attention on its border problems with China and, if anything, increased the Indians' determination not to accept Chinese occupation of Ladakh. On the other hand, the attacks may be designed to slow up Indian economic development or to demonstrate that China, in comparison with Russia, is an aggressive fighter for socialism. Finally, the Chinese may, indeed hope to annex Assam. Chou's latest message to Nehru, however, which seems to offer a Chinese withdrawal...
...Other Issue. Throughout his campaign, Judd has talked constantly of Cuba, denouncing the President bitterly as "a weaker person than we realized." Fraser replied in a fashion he must now regret, attacking Judd's discussion of Cuba as "a calculated and cynical effort to divert attention from the domestic issue of this campaign...