Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's oil production, concentrated vulnerably in the Caspian Sea area, north of Iran, and a markedly weak feature of its industrial system, is expected to top 35 million metric tons this year. (U.S. production: 262 million.) The Balkan satellites may divert two or three million more tons to Russia. The rich oilfields of Iran and Iraq would double Russia's oil output, but the Soviet Union would meet stiff U.S. and British opposition if it tried to seize them...
...momentous story tells of a discharged soldier, half swashbuckler and half misanthrope, who wanders upon a market town to find it conducting a witch hunt. In an effort, both altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
...general preoccupation with trivia-I mean Coke-machines, launderettes . . . laxatives and baseball-I construed as the American attempt to exclude the bigger reality. If you have a lot of little gadgets to divert attention, the larger issues are unlikely to occur to you, and existence is less satisfying but a damn sight more comfortable...
...divert the course of a river and flood the Reds' G.H.Q...
...Rubber Reserve Corp. asked whisky distillers to divert about 15% of their capacity to the production of industrial alcohol to be used in synthetic rubber plants. (No whisky shortage is feared; there are 542 million gallons net in warehouses, a record high...