Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position where quick reaction is needed, where a crisis might arise requiring quick judgment and action. Then in the second place, the mental and emotional factor must be taken into consideration. Under this category come such things as fear, anger, worry, inattention, all those things which tend to distract a person from the task in hand. With these two as a basis, there is a third factor, which we call the mechanical factor. By this is meant some mechanical obstruction, some physical hazard, or some unsafe condition. As an illustration, we might imagine a man driving on the wrong side...
Last week was the best Britain had had in the war, but the best that it promised was to distract Hitler from his plans-from his big plan, whatever it may be, for destroying Britain...
...assist him in editing the Review, Chapman shrewdly imported Marian Evans from the country, installed her in his home as a boarder. She was not the first. Marian soon discovered that Chapman made a practice of renting room's to women who could distract him mentally while their board contributed to the upkeep of his publishing business. Marian had been preceded by the authoress of a learned novel on ancient Egypt who was known to her enemies as Miss Sennacherib. Co-boarding with Miss Sennacherib was Miss Tilley, who acted as the mistress of Chapman and the governess...
...stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial instant...
...educational schools and colleges also meet the approval of Gloria Kay. "Though a fellow or girl may distract each other to an extent that might harm their work," she remarked, "this would be counteracted by the inspiration the one would get from the other as far as hard work and good living are concerned. The result is probably just as good, if not better, than that obtained in 'all-boy' or 'all-girl' schools. The co-educational system is one of the principles of modern education, and I approve of the association...