Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrating its fire on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Belatedly it realized that to abuse the man who at last count was the most popular figure in the land was not precisely the smartest way to regain public confidence. So Business became ''constructive." meaning that it tried to divert attention from its sins to its virtues...
...example of how economic necessity may point the way to technological research, he neatly remarked that while Germany is trying to turn "waste products of industry into food, the U. S. is trying to divert food to industrial uses (example: Henry Ford compressing soybean meal into automobile parts). The German made a speech on "Problems of Industrial Pioneer Work" in which he told how under modern conditions long years and much money may be required for a new process to carve its place in a national economy...
...cold-blooded Dictator. In the end not a single Russian plane left for Spain last week and the whole issue was abruptly crowded out of Soviet news-organs by one more of the sensational "Trotsky conspiracies" which are regularly discovered each time it is tactically necessary to divert Russian minds from something else...
...Then this statement was simply in-tended to divert contributions to your own pocket, wasn't it," asked a committeeman...
...dire the consequences might be. Bravely he sent a "last message" to the medical assembly over which he could not preside. "I have an abiding and unlimited faith in your integrity. I know you will keep faith with the public and never let selfish interests for one moment divert you from the high purpose to which you have dedicated your efforts and your lives...