Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout, the conference was heavily policed by throngs of bull-necked security agents. The opposition Socialist newspaper Al Mouharrir drily commented: "If the Arab League can isolate Israel as completely as the security forces isolated the Casablanca Prefecture, and if the League can divert the Jordan waters as successfully as traffic was diverted in downtown Casablanca, then the conference will have been a great success...
...states, bitterly complained that Jordan and Lebanon refused to allow foreign troops to be stationed in their countries. Jordan's King Hussein replied stubbornly: "This is just not the right time." Tiny Lebanon was again assailed for its reluctance to get moving on the long-delayed project to divert the Jordan River and deny its waters to Israel...
Spring: The Army-McCarthy hearings divert the Senator's energies...
...Additional hospitals and nursing homes will have to be built, thus affecting the construction industry. Medicare, for its part, is likely to affect more than just the old folks. Freed from the burden of paying the medical expenses of parents and older relatives, thousands of couples are expected to divert their earnings to new cars and new houses. Bigger Salaries. Thanks to the Housing Act of 1965, which Johnson also signed last week, millions of Americans will find it easier to buy a new house.. The act not only authorizes $7.5 billion more in federal housing expenditures over...
...State Department remained pretty much unchanged by Kennedy's efforts. Writes Schlesinger: "Kennedy used to divert himself with the dream of establishing a secret office of 30 people or so to run foreign policy while maintaining the State Department as a facade in which people might carry papers from bureau to bureau...