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Word: deflective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Tight Scrapes for W. Booters | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Nature, Stupid | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...really don't care. Any outcome will only be a loss for Russia. The referendum is needed by the Yeltsin team to deflect the people's attention from real failures in the economy. This is in the tradition of our Communist Party bureaucracy. Whenever things went wrong, they tried to distract attention, as in ancient Rome, by providing bread and circuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President is not up to his job | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cries Of Relief | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...White House press conference, used it to ladle out dollops of new fact laced with Kennedy glamour. That has all been turned on its head. The 150 or so correspondents now prepare themselves to trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next time may be many months away. Then there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Dinosaur | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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