Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retreat to Winter. Without a second front to divert German strength, the Red Army was trying the next best distraction: counterattacking farther north in an effort to relieve southern pressure. The Germans acknowledged that the Russian blows had been severe, but they failed to dent the Nazi lines or to create a significant diversion. The Red Army had not yet demonstrated any capacity for effective offensive action against the full weight of the German Army...
...order to make his best contribution," said he, "every farmer should divert as much wheat land as practicable to crops more urgently needed . . . soybeans, flax and various feed crops." He told them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
...sentry crumpled with a guttural gurgle, presently lay still. Beside him a young Polish widow and her companion assessed their handiwork expertly, faded into the night. In sentry garroting, "it is better to work in pairs-a strong woman to do the actual strangling, and an attractive woman to divert the subject's attention...
...June 27 Churchill and Roosevelt said in Washington: The coming operations, which were discussed in detail at our Washington conferences between ourselves and our respective military advisers, will divert German strength from the attack in Russia...
...than 60 divisions (about 800,000 men), including 30 armored brigades, in four groups along his winding, 2,100-mile border. Other estimates were that he had about half as many men; 1,200 to 1,500 planes. Whatever his force, whatever the strength that he has had to divert to the Hitler front, he must disperse his Asian armies to meet their peculiarly difficult problem of defense...