Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four rode to the 27th floor, headed single file up the last three flights, carefully removed a barricade of furniture that Whitman had set at the top of the stairs. While cops on the ground intensified their fire to divert Whitman's attention, Martinez slowly pushed away the dolly propped against the door leading to the walkway around the tower, crawled out onto its south side and began moving stealthily to the east. Crum followed through the door and turned toward the west. Hearing footsteps, Crum fired into the southwest corner to keep Whitman from bursting around the corner...
...week Arab bands operating out of Syria had been attacking Israeli border settlements, leaving behind dead and wounded. In reprisal, Eshkol sent supersonic fighters zipping eight miles into Syria near the Sea of Galilee. They destroyed earth-moving equipment used by the Arabs on a project to divert the sources of the Jordan River away from Israel. In an ensuing dogfight, Israel's air force bagged a Syrian MIG-21, the first ever to be shot down by a French-made Mirage...
Israel fired off a note to the Security Council, and U.N. observers rushed to the scene. In Tel Aviv, Mapai leaders happily expected that the renewed border violence would divert the heat from Eshkol on the home front, were optimistic that Harel's campaign would finally fizzle. Not so Harel. He was still accepting all speaking engagements that came his way. Said he: "This is not my privilege but my duty...
Even before the POL raids, said the Secretary, the U.S. in its 16 months of sustained air offensive against the North had accomplished three major objectives: 1) shoring up South Vietnamese morale, 2) "substantially" increasing the cost of infiltration for the Communists, forcing them to divert an estimated 200,000 workers to road-repair gangs, and 3) demonstrating to the aggressors that "as long as they continued their attempts to subvert and destroy the political institutions of the South, they would pay a high price not only in the South but in the North...
...built with "halfway, halfhearted" measures or by "making appropriations with an eyedropper"-though President Johnson is asking $1.75 billion in anti-poverty appropriations for the next fiscal year. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins warned that the war in Viet Nam must not be al lowed to divert funds from the war on poverty...