Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...Nile, is Pakistan's lifeline; without it, all Western Pakistan would be a desert. Though only 8% of the basin's area stayed in India, it includes the headwaters of three of the six principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan's water. As the downstream areas turned parched and seared, excitable Pakistanis called for war, crying that a quick death was better than death by thirst and starvation. India agreed to turn the water back on, but the Indus remained...
...that in Khrushchev's Russia has replaced Stalin's bullet in the neck as the approved Kremlin method of liquidation, the reason might well be his conspicuous association with the detente policy. Perhaps Khrushchev had offered Mikoyan as a sacrifice to Moscow's hard liners to divert their wrath from himself...
...main purpose of the war flapping apparently was to divert attention from the seizure of the only important anti-Castro newspaper in Cuba (see PRESS). But if the bearded Castro himself really thought his country in peril, he hardly showed it. He escorted Indonesia's President Sukarno around the island, then took ship for the "Hemingway Tourney.'' Castro's impressive catch: a 46-lb. sailfish and three marlin weighing...
...accurate, says Lacy, "every family in America would be spending on the average about $20 a year on pornography." Psychiatrists, sociologists and experts on juvenile delinquency disagree, too, on the effects of pornography on the young-"a very few even see possible indirect benefits from obscene materials that can divert into fantasy certain drives that might otherwise be expressed in anti-social acts...