Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last January, for the second time since the Communists took over, there was devaluation of the currency. Money which could have bought a pair of shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage center the Communists pushed Gheorghiu...
From an Airplane, Dimly. Other inversions produce other kinds of saucers. Sometimes a warm layer hangs several thousand feet up (see diagram). Often the layer contains dust, which increases its power to divert light. If an airplane is flying just above this layer, the pilot may see the dim displaced image of the sun, the moon or a high, brightly lighted cloud. The image will appear below him; it may be distorted, magnified, or in rapid motion. If the inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects...
...undergraduate's attention and gobbled up all the money he sets aside for philanthropy. This has left the multitude of seminars, social agencies, and other student benefits as impoverished as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. To acquaint the Harvard student more fully with these struggling enterprises, and perhaps to divert his funds as well, the incoming Combined Charities committee has recommended limiting future drives to student organizations...
Last week, red-faced Uncle Fred drove to 10 Downing Street, volunteered to quit his cabinet job as Lord President of the Council and his post as party chairman. Labor's Daily Herald got wind of the story, and hoping to divert attention from Labor's own dissentions, splashed it all over Page One. At that point Winston Churchill, who does not usually deign to acknowledge such reports, issued a sharp personal statement: "There is no question of Lord Woolton's resigning. He has the Prime Minister's full and continuing confidence . . ." Said beaming Uncle Fred...
...Communists did their best to exploit the disaster. First they spread the rumor that U.S. A-bomb experiments had caused all the rainfall and the flood. A surprising number of Italians seemed to believe such nonsense. Not missing a trick, the Communists then demanded that the Rome government divert arms appropriations to flood relief...