Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman J. Robert Oppenheimer, as spokesman, advanced two principal reasons: 1) a thermonuclear bomb would divert personnel and raw material from the A-bomb program, and hence the U.S. was giving up a known, certain thing to try an uncertainty; and 2) the U.S. should try again to negotiate a disarmament program with the Russians. The report's key passage said, approximately: Not one of us thinks the thermonuclear bomb should be made. The President should tell the people that the bomb is fundamentally and ethically wrong...
...Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot on the spot in Mexico, is almost striking enough to divert the moviegoer's attention from the foolish events going on in the foreground...
When the McCarthy evangel began in 1950, the liberals saw in his distortions and exaggerations a chance to divert attention from the bedroom scene. They began to construct the myth of McCarthy's great power and his menace to liberty...
...Claus. Reason : his four-man staff was busy working on this year's Christmas card de signs for gift subscriptions to TIME Inc. magazines. To help the mood, Gangel had tacked sprigs of holly, some toy reindeer and a couple of pine cones above the drawing boards to divert his artists from thoughts of the latest baseball score, the nearest golf course, or caricatures of the boss...
That Dictatorial Feeling. The Radicals promptly charged that the bombing and burning were touched off by "officialdom" to divert attention from the economic crisis, in "imitation of the Reichstag fire." Certain it was that the blasts provided Perón with an assist just when he needed it badly. The immediate result of the violence was a temporary strengthening of Perón before his political opposition and before his critics in the army and the unions. Probably feeling more like a dictator than he had for many a week, he launched a campaign of repression...