Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another reason for the attack on the Jews, Silverman stated, is that the segregationists are attempting to extend their base of operations in order to divert law enforcement authorities. Some Southerners claim that Jews are trying to "divide and conquer" Negro and white Christians, said Silverman, in order to justify the bombings...
...year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between the lines rather than between the sheets. What with the lovers' nagging consciences and Arthur's endless tact, this is one triangle that could seem eternal if Author White did not unfold the entire panoply of medieval life to divert the reader. He ranges from the protocol of jousting and the niceties of falconry to the names of the "fiercer cocktails" of the period, e.g., Father Whoresonne, Stride Wide and Lift...
...dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...
Throughout the summer session there is considerable dramatic and musical activity calculated to divert students from the more engaging quest for the humid, under-the-shade-tree liberal education...
National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, 57, for Governor and trying to divert Manhattan Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 49, from his persistent but unannounced interest in the Governor's chair to an interest in Irving Ives's Senate seat. Possible Democratic Senate contenders: New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner, onetime Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. Strongest of the three is Wagner, who swept back into city hall last November with the largest plurality ever granted a New York mayor, still wants to follow his father into the Senate...