Word: deflections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his squad's challenging shots from the blue line. "The defense weren't shooting wide of the net so we could get tip-ins. They were shooting them right down the middle. You aren't going to score on those shots--you have to tip them in, or deflect them...
Navy officials who sought to deflect the criticism had plausible answers to many of the questions. True, the A-6E and A-7E fighter-bombers used in the attack were subsonic planes designed in the late 1950s, giving rise to charges that outdated equipment was at fault. But Navy spokesmen pointed out that even the Navy's new F/A-18 high-performance fighter-bomber must slow to subsonic speeds to deliver bombs...
Until a gay man asked him out. My friend didn't accept, but the calls kept coming anyway because he couldn't find a way to say no. I was spared from becoming a bridesmaid at their wedding, not because he found a way to deflect his pursuer, but because the calls finally stopped (presumably the gentleman found someone...
Reagan officials sought to deflect criticism by pointing out that the exercise made several unrealistic assumptions, especially underestimating the U.S. strategic reserve. Besides, insisted William Vaughan, Assistant Secretary for Emergency Preparedness, past evidence shows that Government interference only makes things worse. Many experts believe the 1973 shortages were caused by federal price controls and allocation policies then in effect...
There was no evidence that Cross and Torgerson were killed specifically because they were newsmen. The grim news certainly did not long deflect reporters whose luck was still holding. The day after Cross and Torgerson were killed, a Honduran official pleaded with some journalists to stay out of the area. But Juan Tamayo of the Herald and Photographer Sill talked their way past military checkpoints and ignored bursts of nearby gunfire. They turned back only when they saw that the road ahead had been newly mined...