Word: diverts
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...water pipes, filling in potholed roads. Old residents were amazed that suddenly the streets were no longer filled with prowling packs of wild dogs and the usual flocks of scavenger birds. To help bring down the soaring cost of living, General Ne Win ordered Burma's navy to divert its patrol boats from their coastal duties and send them out as a fishing fleet...
Another reason for the attack on the Jews, Silverman stated, is that the segregationists are attempting to extend their base of operations in order to divert law enforcement authorities. Some Southerners claim that Jews are trying to "divide and conquer" Negro and white Christians, said Silverman, in order to justify the bombings...
...year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between the lines rather than between the sheets. What with the lovers' nagging consciences and Arthur's endless tact, this is one triangle that could seem eternal if Author White did not unfold the entire panoply of medieval life to divert the reader. He ranges from the protocol of jousting and the niceties of falconry to the names of the "fiercer cocktails" of the period, e.g., Father Whoresonne, Stride Wide and Lift...
...dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...
Throughout the summer session there is considerable dramatic and musical activity calculated to divert students from the more engaging quest for the humid, under-the-shade-tree liberal education...