Word: deflected
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...center Bud Higgenbottom shot a pass from his own blue line to Dick Reilly waiting alone at the Clarkson blue line. Reilly skated down the side at an awkward angle, and fired a high shot to the upper lefthand corner of Clarkson's cage. MacDonald could only manage to deflect it into the center of the cage...
Despite reports that particles from the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet might damage the Russian artificial moon or deflect its orbit downward, University astronomers seem to feel that there is no danger of such an event. They said last night that the warning by British astronomer A. C. Lovell that the satellite might be destroyed because it lacked atmospheric protection had been misinterpreted...
...Crimson displayed a tight, well-coordinated defense, holding high-scoring Ken Swanson scoreless. Goalie Lindsay Fischer's 12 saves included one he caught off the goal post and another he was just able to deflect over the nets. Halfbacks Stacey Holmes and Denny Little tackled with precision, and repeatedly stopped Trinity scoring attempts...
...what does last week's bill do to the Communists? Probably nothing. It was aimed not at them but at another group, the Republicans. The bill's sponsor, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, was trying to deflect the Republican charge that Democrats are soft on Communism...
...engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above the plane than from below it. This decreases air pressure on the top, causing the saucer to rise...