Word: deflected
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Game of Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
...product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks in the bow and stern. Grumman is now turning out the first order for 1,000 canoes, has orders in the offing for another 5,000. The price: slightly...
...according to Hale, K-8 is the first to compensate for all the factors that deflect a bullet in air combat...
...utterly failed to deflect-French Jazz Pundit Hugues Panassié from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis...
...find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty...