Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion...
...fulfilling one of Kennedy's major aims: coordinating State and Defense policies so that U.S. diplomacy and military power go hand in hand. Nitze (rhymes with it's-a.) can tackle a ski trail at Aspen, discuss theology with a Jesuit, and is handsome enough to divert attention from Kennedy himself at public gatherings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become the first Defense Secretary. In 1932 Nitze married Phyllis Pratt, granddaughter...
Last year industry's conservative Committee for Economic Development estimated that school costs will rise by 47% in the '60s. At that rate, state and local governments would have to divert nearly all of their revenue to education alone. Yet 15 poor states are already making a greater financial effort than the U.S. average, and cannot meet national educational standards. For example, Mississippi spends 3.7% of personal income to raise $225.86 per pupil, while Delaware, by spending only 2.8%, raises...
Shrill threats to "liberate West Irian" have long been President Sukarno's favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia...
...Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed to divert advertising to Canadian publications, the Tories repealed it in 1958 after they came to power...