Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ezra Taft Benson firmly declined, suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will 1) buy a limited amount of potatoes for school lunch and welfare use, 2) pay a subsidy of 35? a hundredweight to divert potatoes into starch and flour production, and 3) join producers in potato-sales-promotion...
...Club's St. Patrick's Day dinner, McCarthy took his cue from the toastmaster, who said the Senator was driving the snakes from America. McCarthy snorted: "The snakes didn't like St. Patrick's methods, and the Communists don't like mine." Fighting to divert attention from Cohn and Schine, whom he did not mention, McCarthy blasted out at various villains whom he identified as "eggheads," "deluded liberals," "the left-wing press," "the jackal pack," "Pentagon politicians...
When the Lampoon's Great Hall became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
...knew later, all were Communist guerrillas wearing peasants' clothes. The 'women' were young Communist soldiers carrying hand grenades under their coats instead of breasts. A few of these visitors started a dispute with a woman about the price of a chicken. It was a trick to divert our attention while others were encircling the village. We heard a whistle. Knives, grenades, submachine guns came out of the baskets carried by the Communists. With submachine guns firing, they made their way through the screaming crowds. One group entered the church. I heard a blast of machine-gun fire...
...immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less of a plot than a scenario -a sort of Reichstag fire in reverse, masterminded in Moscow and designed to divert the attention of the forthcoming Inter-American Conference in Caracas from Guatemala as the Western Hemisphere's Red problem child...