Word: divertible
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...Royal Navy is moving in any force into the western Pacific, the Japs will have to divert naval strength to protect their sea lanes to Rangoon and north Burma...
Three weeks ago WPB cautiously began to cut back production. Before long, six eastern plants will be partly or completely shut down. U.S. production will be cut some 14%-a round 300,000,000 lb., almost equal to the top prewar year's poundage. Pleas to divert excess aluminum to civilian uses have brought a stock WPB answer: no manpower...
...turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders then terrifying London...
...after years Nelson's words took on a special meaning, came to stand as the essence of a naval theory: to force the enemy to action anywhere and any time, not to harass or divert him, but to drive him into a battle of final decision. In World War II, British naval commanders have acted as though they had Nelson's words tattooed on their hearts...
...puppy days Mickey Rooney used to pain thousands and divert millions of cinemaddicts by obviously feeling as cocky as he acted. Now it is simply an act. He has acquired the detachment of a veteran vaudevillian. He is a natural dancer and comedian, and his little parlor tricks-especially one burlesque broadcast-are a pleasure to watch. Even better is Judy Garland. As sung by Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were...