Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee, presided over by a plump and healthy-looking Mao, 68, was meeting in Peking, Hartini was taking in the sights of Nanking and Shanghai. At banquets and parades, the little-known Peking matrons plainly competed with her for attention. Had a clever government agent wanted a gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang Ching. She married...
...policing actions. Despite an advisory opinion by the World Court that delinquent nations should pony up their full share for all the U.N.'s activities, Russia has flatly refused to pay for the Congo operation. Said Gromyko: "Let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will divert a single kopeck to aiding the colonialists to sanctify their criminal deeds" in the Congo...
...caught a late Saturday night showing at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, where a strange intensity radiated from the audience. Nothing could divert their visual attention from the screen, no conversation was allowed to interfere with the narrative...
...presidential plane, as Kennedy flew into Pueblo, Colo., for a speech about a $170 million project to divert water from the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers on the western slopes of the Rockies into the Arkansas River valley on the east, was Colorado's Democratic Senator John Carroll. A loyal Kennedy backer in Congress, Carroll faces a stiff re-election challenge this year from Republican Representative Peter Dominick. It was Carroll who introduced Kennedy to some 8,000 cheering spectators in the Pueblo High School Stadium...
...doesn't understand what it is." Talal claims that during his last hitch in the government (1960-61) Saud promised him he could proclaim a constitutional monarchy. Proclaim he did-but Saud prohibited mention of it in Saudi Arabia's press. Talal's attempts to divert Saudi Arabia's steady stream of oil money from the free-spending royal family to development projects were equally frustrating...