Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three seconds, probably the lowest in U.S. politics. No member of the U.S. Senate has a rating of more than 15 minutes, with the exception of Everett Dirksen, whose coefficient of three hours and 25 minutes Dr. McLandress attributes to his "almost unique inability to divert his thoughts from the public interest." Lowest ratings in the Senate are held by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse and New York Republican Jacob Javits, who both score four minutes...
...manner on which modern engineers can hardly improve. In the upper part of the Siq, before it reaches the city, they built a stone dam 45 ft. high and 140 ft. long. The dam was not designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile long cut through a sandstone ridge. The water was finally discharged into the comparatively broad Wadi Mataha and Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), where it would do no damage...
...student, Keats knew long before this that he was as good as dead anyway. He struggled to make his death easier for Joseph Severn, the kind but ineffectual painter who nursed him. Severn had never seen anyone die. Keats punned "a hundred times a day" and made jokes to divert him. "Severn," he gasped when the final moment came, "lift me up-I am dying." Then he added reassuringly, "Don't be afraid...
...serious of unsuccessful coups, however, could divert effort and attention entirely away from the war against the Vietcong, argue those in the U.S. government who oppose the removal of Diem. They also argue that it might be impossible to find a successor able to unite the country in the fight against the Vietcong. This argument unintentionally constitutes a strong case against any American military commitments in South Vietnam, for it says that the people there are not determined to eradicate the Vietcong. If this is true, the United States will soon be the main opponent of the insurgents. Already...
Last week, in prime evening time, NBC bravely sent Mr. Novak to war against ABC's Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides...