Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Koch worked on the poem eight hours a day for four months (in Italy, "on my wife's Fulbright"), he is really just having fun. And he is always perfectly willing to let a chance rhyme divert his attention. While "snow From the high Himalayas comes unstuck," he writes. "Let's pause a moment, like a dairy truck." The next several stanzas, goofily irrelevant, are about a milkman...
...sounded the same theme in Indonesia, where President Sukarno often uses the continued Dutch occupation of Western New Guinea to divert his countrymen's minds from the staggering national economy and the festering rebellions in the island.* In an extemporaneous speech Khrushchev cried: "Your country is rich, and it is understandable that the colonialists were reluctant to leave it," and he delivered himself of a cautionary homily: "You cannot get rid of colonialism with prayers any more than you can teach a tiger to eat grass. Independence is possible only by fighting...
...Camp David, Khrushchev seemed to reflect those drives. He impressed Eisenhower as a leader extremely anxious to win the respect and approval of his own people, as one who might wish to divert armament spending to consumer production for internal political reasons, as one almost pathetically eager to be accepted into the society of legitimate statesmen. When showing off before such Soviet underlings as Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador to the U.S. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, Khrushchev was full of bluster; in his private meetings with Ike he spoke quietly and seemed ready to do business...