Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of injury went deeper than dollars. Particularly galling to Canadians, the inquiring Congressmen found, were U.S. citizens who "adopted a patronizing assumption that Canada, like a poor relation, would remain at our beck and call." Among the symptoms of discontent: revived protectionist sentiment, a desire to divert trade away from the U.S. and "a tinge of 'anti-United States' sentiment which is usually hedged about with protestations of continued affection, but is nevertheless widespread...
...absurdities, this rare glimpse into what the Russians divert themselves with on Saturday night does not come off at all badly. It would be interesting to speculate on the debt that the people's artists behind the Soviet cinema owe to our own capitalistic horse-opera tradition. Even the cavalry arriving at the last minute is not omitted, nor the victory of a handful of heroes over thousands of the wicked...
...business," explains a high presidential adviser. "But when my judgment is asked in Washington, I shall say that I believe we could make loans to Brazil and Argentina in such a way as to help them out." The probable way: general loans to governments that would allow them to divert other funds to the state oil companies...
Meanwhile, at a Washington news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said the west "must constantly be alert" against Russia launching some foreign adventure to divert attention from what is going on at home...
...talk of a U.N. force in Kashmir, said Menon, is "entirely out of the question," and whoever votes for it in the U.N. will be performing an "unfriendly act" in India's eyes. Thus, all set to play up "Pakistani aggression," Nehru and his colleagues hope to divert U.N. attention from the inconvenient fact that two-thirds of predominantly Moslem Kashmir has been incorporated into the Indian Republic in open defiance of five Security Council resolutions...