Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pronged attack on the Iberian peninsula to divert German strength from Italy and the Balkans...
...scientists-even if they could-shut down the lid of their fearful Pandora's chest now, for treasures are there as well as imps of death: "Out of [science's] work there will come . . . things which will improve man's health, ease his labor, and divert and edify him. . . . There is no need to belabor this point, nor its obverse-that out of science there will come, as there has in this last war, a host of instruments of destruction...
...sseldorf, German officials from other bizonal states agreed to divert part of their meat and fats to the Ruhr next month. If it worked, Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...
...Americans are the Romans of today. Material greatness, technical perfection, millionaires and beautiful women combine to divert the eyes [from] a soul essentially young and simple...
...other deterrent was more sophisticated. It was called UNESCO; it was composed of leading intellectuals from all over the world, and it was designed to attack war at its roots, "in the minds of men." Through science and education and propaganda, it was to divert the aggressive instincts, fears, prejudices which make men fight...