Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition demands that amateur theatre groups at some point in their careers, produce a play by Shakespear. Actually, no other plays are quite so unsuited to non-professional treatment, because the Bard's familiar plots cannot divert audience attention from the actors' shortcomings. Each viewer is sure that he can--or has--played the role to something near amateur perfection. And heaven help the wretch who falls below this often exaggerated standard...
...closed down iron foundry just outside the city limits, and bought it for $500,000. Thirteen labor unions got their members to work round the clock to rush it into shape. But he still needed machinery. Machinery makers combed their order lists, persuaded customers to let them divert $300,000 worth of equipment to Connelly's greater need...
...deeper, it's apparent that Republicans think flinging Chiang at China will divert Red troops from Korea. This is comfortably plausible, yet involves other events equally plausible which should make the GOP swallow hard...
...parting advice to Merton: "Mysticism is not for the masses but for an elite. To lose sight of this is to divert Christians from what may well be, for the majority of them, their most urgent business. Their call is not to take flight from society but to revivify it ... For this undertaking prayer will be the inspiration; but prayer, as St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out at length, is no substitute for energies employed in direct relation to the needs of the hour. In our present predicament no religious propaganda could be more in harmony with the Marxist book than...
...obviously willing to rattle any skeleton in the Truman closet to divert public attention from a snafu in supply. Sample Reeder rattles: 1) When Korea began, "we thought, and many responsible people said, that it was just a police action"; 2) ammunition stocks are low partly because of the "atmosphere of economy" enforced by onetime (1949-50) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...