Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farrell says insistently that most people are dreary, not fascinating, and the reader imagines Farrell saying "I'm not going to divert you from the important truth of dullness by presenting my dull people in an entertaining way. I'm going to be as dull as possible about...
...race. Despite Cabot Lodge's strong showings in primaries and polls, he is unpopular with many Republicans who feel that he is, in unlikely combination, too aloof and patrician and liberal; indeed, the main effect of Lodge's New Hampshire primary victory this year probably was to divert and delay any concerted effort that anti-Goldwater Republicans might have mounted...
...shaky Baathist regime might decide that it could profit from a little external diversion, such as an attack by jet bombers on Israel's main pumping station-which is buried deep underground to guard against such contingencies. But if the Arab nations go ahead with their plans to divert the Jordan's headwaters, Israel has already warned that it would treat any such move as a clear "act of aggression...
Since leaving Cuba, Ray has worked for the Puerto Rican Planning Board, designing low-cost mass housing for rural and suburban areas. He hopes to convince Latin Americans to increase public and private investment in housing and to divert more foreign aid funds to the solution of the problem...
Private enterprise is rather fiercely discouraged in Russia. Nevertheless, a thriving underground capitalism persists. It is carried on by daring entrepreneurs who-often with astounding ease-divert materials from government factories, turn out products in clandestine shops and sell to luxury-starved consumers on the black market. In 1961 Khrushchev decreed death as the penalty for such "economic crimes," and at least 163 accused violators have died before firing squads...