Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward the uniformed military leaders. "The power structures, the ministries, the government and the Security Council have drawn few lessons from previous events," Yeltsin told them. That was taken to mean that top security and military officials are to be used as whipping boys...
Harvard's special teams even provided the highlight of the afternoon for the Crimson against the Big Green. With 22 seconds to play in the first half, senior cornerback Brian Kahn came flying in from the left side to deflect Dave Regula's 35-yard field goal attempt. The ball ricocheted off the outstretched arm of sophomore defensive tackle Jason Hughes and right into the lap of sophomore cornerback Jeff Compas who returned it 18 yards up the left sideline...
...Elaine Shannon. "Pointing the finger at the cartel is seen as a desperate attempt by Samper to save his administration. He's terrified that the cartel's bookkeeper in custody is going to tell just how involved he has been with the cartel, so he is trying to deflect attention onto the cartel." Last month, the cartel's accountant, Guillermo Pallomari, surrendered to U.S. authorities. Samper has been under investigation for allegedly accepting cartel money for his presidential campaign...
...that lead only to more excursions, of interruptions of prior interruptions, can render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the frustration of feeling powerless to deflect an apparently inevitable slide toward shame and ruin. But Ryder's ordeal seems less malevolent than capricious. He is the benumbed victim of nothing more sinister than a patchy memory and a tight schedule. Why reproduce a free-floating nightmare when the real thing lurks each night for billions...
Even Reagan, who was 69 in 1980, was able to deflect the issue with a combination of shrewdness, humor and take-it-or-leave-it confidence. "Conservative Republicans never sat around and said about Reagan, 'Don't you think he's too old? It's a hard job,'" recalls a party insider. "They knew who Reagan was. They trusted Reagan to be Reagan and stay Reagan, and they thought, 'If he has a heart attack, he'll still be Reagan...