Word: deflections
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...Lions (Crown; 349 pages; $25), Terry Anderson claims that North used Waite to deflect attention away from secret arms-for-hostages talks between Washington and Tehran. Waite does not say if he knew of such negotiations or later felt deceived. His memorable take on North is that the gung-ho posters in North's office "seemed adolescent...
Halleran rifled a shot that was heading into the upper left hand corner of the goal, but the five-foot, eleven-inch Donahoe used every inch of her body to deflect the ball over the crossbar...
...handball in the Columbia defensive zone gave junior Elizabeth Eynon a penalty kick. But the Lion goalie got enough of her hands on the ball to deflect it over...
...scientists and bureaucrats involved," declared Oregon's other Senator, Mark Hatfield. But it appears that Clinton will not need to submit his plan to Congress, and for that, many on Capitol Hill may be grateful. They can publicly attack the proposal for the consumption of the audience back home, deflect the heat, then quietly draw some measure of comfort from the fact that, at last, there is a plan -- a plan that most owls and some loggers may be able to live with...
...jury found Officers Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind not guilty of the same charge. "That's all right!" cried someone in the crowd at First A.M.E. On the tape, Briseno appeared to be trying to deflect some of the blows...