Word: distract
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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BEFORE he discovered Sesame Street last year, Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer, like many parents, had little faith in the educational value of television. "My first reaction whenever I saw my kids in front of the set," he recalls, "was to distract them somehow until I could shut it off. Then I noticed what they were watching, and pretty soon I found I was watching Sesame Street with them. When they peeled off to play from time to time, I was still there watching it. Now I even watch it when the kids aren't home...
Nixon, of course, must by law present an official budget estimating what revenues actually will be. But the President has begun to distract attention from the forthcoming deficit by stressing an idea known as the "full-employment budget." This is a theoretical measure that, instead of calculating actual Government income, figures how much the U.S. would have taken in if there were full employment. Thus, a deficit under ordinary accounting might well turn out to be a surplus in the full-employment budget. Example: in this fiscal year, the Government stands to spend about $210 billion and collect roughly...
...Carl Stokes has said that providing housing, clothing and food for the poor should take precedence over finding ways to combat air and water pollution. Says Richard Hatcher, black mayor of Gary, Ind.: "The nation's concern with environment has done what George Wallace was unable to do: distract the nation from the human problems of black and brown Americans...
Guardian Role. A factor in many of the "accidents" was a maternal ambivalence toward the burned child. Of the 46 mothers involved in the study, 44 were preoccupied at the time with some "unresolved problem" that tended to distract them from their guardian role. Nineteen, for instance, confessed that they had not wanted to bear the child who had been burned. Twenty-one classified their attitude toward their husbands as "distant, indifferent or hostile." Only three in the control group felt that...
...wound up a case several years ago with a massive sweep of his arm, lost his balance, and tumbled headfirst into the jury box. Another attorney in the state was blind, and after finishing his presentations, used to make his Seeing-Eye dog do cute tricks in order to distract the jury from what opposing lawyers were saying...