Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson netminder faced seven shots--allowing five, saving one, and seeing one deflect off the right post. He also blocked San Diego St.'s third penalty-kick attempt, but Aztec Gerardo Jiminez was given a second attempt when Hall was called for moving too early. Jiminez netted the ball in the upper center on try number...
...decision by the trustees was an effort to deflect criticism from continued investment in South Africa, said Jeff Ganz, the student representative on the board of trustees. "It's embarrasing to go to a school where student input is ignored," said Ganz...
...summit. If, on the other hand, the President's reputation -- or Shultz's -- is further wounded by the hearings, the Kremlin might decide it has the upper hand. Soviet observers contend that the President, along with his political advisers, may realize that only a successful summit can deflect attention from the Iran-contra affair and assure Reagan a favorable mention in the history books. And if Reagan is unwilling to make the concessions necessary for such a summit, Moscow may then conclude it can now afford to wait for his successor...
Moscow's reluctance to let Rust off with a wrist slapping, and thus deflect attention from its embarrassment, only underscored the extreme seriousness with which the Soviets viewed Rust's romp through more than 400 miles of well- guarded airspace. Soviet and Western military experts were still digesting the news of the abrupt departure of Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov, the first official of that rank to be ousted since Nikita Khrushchev's celebrated firing of Georgi Zhukov for meddling in party affairs in 1957. Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov was also dismissed. Further casualties were expected in the course...
...distant South Pacific remains unclear. "There's no plausible explanation in terms of geography or legitimate national interest," a suspicious Hawke said last week. One possible explanation is that Gaddafi simply wants to irritate the U.S. and France, his chief Western enemies, and at the same time deflect attention from domestic economic troubles and the defeat of Libyan troops in the African country of Chad. Some Western observers, however, believe a Libyan presence in | the Pacific may foreshadow a larger political offensive by its ally, the Soviet Union. In recent months Moscow has been enlarging its Pacific fleet and trying...