Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders then terrifying London...
...after years Nelson's words took on a special meaning, came to stand as the essence of a naval theory: to force the enemy to action anywhere and any time, not to harass or divert him, but to drive him into a battle of final decision. In World War II, British naval commanders have acted as though they had Nelson's words tattooed on their hearts...
...puppy days Mickey Rooney used to pain thousands and divert millions of cinemaddicts by obviously feeling as cocky as he acted. Now it is simply an act. He has acquired the detachment of a veteran vaudevillian. He is a natural dancer and comedian, and his little parlor tricks-especially one burlesque broadcast-are a pleasure to watch. Even better is Judy Garland. As sung by Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were...
...Marines landed on Choiseul at night, 18 hours after the Treasury Islands attack began. There were about 2,000 of them, and their heaviest weapons were 60-mm. mortars, but their job was to make a noise like a couple of divisions, to divert attention from the Bougainville landings. They succeeded: the Jap radio reported 20,000 Allied troops on Choiseul...
...bitter tug of war between the Army and Big Business for the control of heavy industry. Japan's great holding families, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, did not oppose war; they opposed Army dominance of the economy. Under the Army's guidance, the new Ministry will now divert more yen, men and materials into the manufacture of weapons, at the expense of the little man's wardrobe and dinner bowl. Especial care, Tojo has indicated, will be lavished upon the aircraft industry...