Word: divertible
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Then Hopkins & Co. encountered some thing they could not stop or divert. To the platform went a shrunken, tottery little oldster, 82-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, a man of vinegar aspect, of high conviction, a man of law and principle, long since outmoded but steadfast in his faith in tradition's rock...
...this talk carries one rider: all bets are off if the U. S. remains politically unfriendly toward Germany, tries an arms race with her. Such a race would, of course, divert the resources of both continents from the job of bringing prosperity to Hitler's brave new world...
...That President Roosevelt "was the first who gave expression to this hatred of Fascism," with a twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...
...hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
...Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...