Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote indignant Critic Downes: "If the technicalities of ... law divert profits from the works of genius into other pockets, surely it is high time to do something about correcting such abuses...
...national lottery would help to eliminate the underworld from gambling and serve to divert considerable sums of money into the national treasury...
...daytime broadcasts, devoted to extolling . . . the so-called American way of life . . . divert the attention of American women from the acute social questions . . . It is strictly forbidden to mention by radio anything about the growing unemployment, the steady rise of the cost of living, about the hunger and misery, about the American slums. The very mention of the name 'worker' is not permitted...
...efforts to divert the scientific minds of this country towards ever-increasing preoccupation with means of destruction, Dr. Seitz unwittingly joins his militaristic counterparts in the Kremlin in spreading the infection now ravishing the body of our tottering civilization...
This was the point that Voznesensky missed. In the year since he was kicked out, the Kremlin has tried to divert its economic effort a little from steel smelters to pants. Consumer prices have been cut sharply, indicating that more goods were at hand (TIME, March 13). Last week came further news of increased consumer production in Russia...