Word: divertible
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...Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
...participation in university affairs, 2) appointed an eight-man committee to make a study of the needs of the medical school, 3) asked the legislature for $2,200,000 for a new college library, 4) requested another $150,000 for a new medical library, and 5) made plans to divert $10,000 in athletic scholarships to non-athletes next fall...
...night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses...
From London, Sir Anthony Eden cabled: "I am delighted." Colonel Nasser, in triumph, was more sober. "Another struggle is beginning," he said. "We must not be intoxicated." His government, no longer able to divert attention from its troubles by blaming everything on the British, must now get down to Egypt's age-old unsolved problems-overpopulation, disease, illiteracy, poverty...
...Commerce Departments is building up over Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks's proposal to put labor unions under the antitrust laws. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who is opposed, has come out on top, so far, in a running battle over other issues, e.g., knocking down a Commerce proposal to divert copper from the strategic stockpile to the strike-bound copper industry (on the ground that it was strike-breaking...