Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behr's guide was well aware that he was no tourist, but decided that throwing him out of the country was pointless. In turn. Behr knew that the driver of their touring car was a member of the secret police. To divert the guide's attention while a photographer took pictures. Behr (in fractured German) tried to engage him in conversation. Once, when the guide mentioned that he had translated Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage, into Albanian, Behr diverted him by describing at length a meeting with Brecht in Paris in 1953. Behr found the guide...
Still another prong would consist of measures to divert land from production of crops now in oversupply-a temporary five-year "soil bank," plus a special plan for transforming wheatlands on the arid western fringes of the wheat belt into grasslands for grazing cattle...
Honestus: No, not entirely. The overproduction is the combined result of the technological revolution and the Government's price-support programs. High price supports tend to bring on gluts because they divert land, capital and effort into production of the supported crops...
...restored it to private enterprise. In one adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard...
...World War II. Said Nikita:."I wouldn't say that this was pleasant for the people." But he argued that the move was necessary. Reason: collective farmers "have not been materially interested in increasing their output" because prices were so low. But the government claimed it could not divert funds from defense for farm incentive payments or purchase needed equipment, because the U.S. is "harboring plans for a surprise nuclear rocket attack on the Soviet Union"-hence the cost must be passed on to the housewife...