Word: divertingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less a crime for a Public Bureau or Commission to divert the substance of Peter to buy the vote of Paul than it is for some Kreuger to convert the assets of a publicly held corporation to personal...
...brought labor into line with promises that might be taken word-for-word from the Nuremberg harangues of 1932-33. With the centralization of the National Bank, the government now has a percentage of the credits it needs to carry on the military and naval expansion that will divert the Argentines from the things they will not be able to say, the free newspapers they will not be able to read and the great amounts of consumers' goods they will not be able...
...obvious way to use this water would be to divert it above sea level, north of Lake Tiberias. But this would sacrifice the power which the water would generate if allowed to fall into the deep Jordan rift. Besides, the Dead Sea, cut off from its water supply, would shrink or dry up; Palestine's planners do not want that. They proposed to solve the problem by an engineering stunt impossible anywhere else in the world...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...