Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal focus, if not the prime cause, of American frustrations was the cruel, inconclusive war in Viet Nam. It had divided and demoralized the American people as had no other issue in this century. And it continued to divert a disproportionate amount of the national treasure and energy...
...that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent allies to carry more of the burden. He overlooks the fact that France, Britain and several other European countries already divert larger shares of their national incomes to foreign aid than the U.S.'s .6%. The U.S. certainly can give more. In addition, says French Editor-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the U.S. should improve its world position by far greater use of its potentially strongest weapon, "intellectual leadership...
...really afford to pay its service employees a living wage as the cost of living spirals. This time the wage settlement amounted to an extra 38 dollars per girl. Even if this isn't tacked directly onto tuition, each girl will still lose, because the College must simply divert funds from something like libraries or scholarships. And with the cost of labor still rising, there will be more wage increases like this one. But wages are only one facet of Radcliffe's problem. There is also an imminent shortage of service workers...
...amazing ease with which George Wallace has managed to divert the attentions of the working-class from real inequities to imagined and irrelevant ones demonstrates the power of values that have been long instilled. When the working class man frets about his "high" taxes, he does not pause to worry about the loopholes by which the rich escape paying anything like a fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been...
...Communists also use dogs and, for that matter, a whole zoo of combat animals. They occasionally drop cats into tunnels and spider holes to divert allied scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...