Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown accustomed to switching on the state-controlled radio broadcast at 10:30 every night and listening to the latest installment of death and deception as defense attorneys and prosecutors alike in Torun's Courtroom 40 continue to tolerate a flood of contradictions from the witness stand. Perhaps to divert attention from Torun, early last week Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski paid an unprecedented visit to the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where the banned trade union Solidarity had its roots. There he talked with workers about high food prices while hunching over work benches, shaking hands and kissing women's cheeks...
...navigate smoothly through his Cains and Abvis, 'tween Weinberger and Schultz, 'tween Burt and Porie, lest administrative squabbles divert his attention from the needs of the nation...
...million welfare recipients are permit ted to spend their checks as they choose. The suggested change would mean that welfare tenants who failed to pay their rent for two months would be adjudged to have mismanaged their money. At this point, a landlord could ask state welfare officials to divert part of the A.F.D.C. for delinquent rent within the next 30 days. One critic of the proposed rule, Henry Freedman, director of the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law, said that those on welfare should be permitted to spend their money as they please. Said Freedman of the plan...
...coal mines closed during Rockefeller's last term, and the unemployment rate at 13.6% is the highest in the country, but his prospects seem undamaged. "It's like, 'Don't blame Jay,' " grouses State G.O.P. Chairman Kent Hall. "Somehow he's able to divert attention away from his failures...
...Latin was not. As the century wore on, the former qualities became more important to society women like Mrs. Pepys, wife of the English diarist Samuel Pepys. In the words of a contemporary, Lady Chudleigh, women were educated "as if for nothing else designed/But made like puppets, to divert mankind...