Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected to represent them, which many felt represented them no longer. For a general election, there was no complete register of voters: voters had been called up, industrially shifted and concentrated, evacuated, blitzed out of old addresses. Most new voters had never been registered at all. An election would divert precious energy from the war effort, create bitterness which might destroy national unity. It would not solve Britain's standing political dilemma, succinctly expressed by the sober weekly Economist...
...about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate manner that is a pleasant change from the frantic modern comedies which infest our stage. The handsome set and the almost perfect cast are bathed in the romantic golden glow of The Good Old Days. "The Damask Check" intends to divert it and it succeeds admirably...
Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...
...Editor handed the already wilting newshawks copies of his new order that Government agencies cease bickering and airing their disagreements. (He had covered this before, but now he made it stronger.) The man in the street is confused, he said: "Officials divert to quarrels with each other the time and energy they ought to be devoting to fighting the enemy...
Well to the north, fighting was renewed in the Voronezh sector, but with force insufficient to divert German pressure from Stalingrad. To the south, Krasnodar fell and the Germans swept deeper into the Caucasus...