Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting: "We do not want the Atlantic Charter or the Pacific Charter. We love our charter-that is Pakistan [separate Moslem State]. Neither the British Government nor the Government of India can distract us from our goal." Jinnah, clearly, was going to be no help in bringing unity, strength and dignity to India...
Early in his studies Soundman Burris-Meyer discovered a few essential don'ts. For example: 1) hymns slow production almost to the stopping point; 2) Deep in the Heart of Texas prompts workers to clap their hands and let production go hang; 3) vocal refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...
...strategy, long planned, was comparatively simple. The Commandos were to land by stealth and distract German forces in Berneval, four miles to the east, and Varengeville, five miles to the west. Major General John Hamilton Roberts' Canadians would carry the main show, with flanking attacks against the chalk cliffs on both sides of Dieppe and a frontal assault on Dieppe's beaches...
With hatred of the Nazis seething through Norway, with Canadian and U.S. expeditionary forces on hand in Britain, Norway looked inviting as a diversion theater, to distract the Germans from other fronts, if not yet as the Allied road back. A sweep across northern Norway would give the Allies a common U.S.-British-Soviet front, might knock Finland out of the war. Joseph Stalin is anxious to get his allies into some nearby field, even if their foray fails. The mere threat of action against Norway had already immobilized some 200,000 German soldiers who might have been killing Russians...
Sweden was virtually encircled. The problem, more ominous than ever before, was to figure out this year's answer to the Hitler guessing game. There were at least three possibilities: 1) the Germans were trying to distract the Allies from other objectives; 2) they were warring against Swedish nerves to force permission for cross-Sweden movements of troops; 3) they meant to forestall a United Nations invasion of Norway...