Word: deflects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right one first all the time." During a game. Hall frets most while the Black Hawks are on the attack ("I start fighting myself, particularly if the other goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over a stick and into the goal. Standing in the nets, Hall often seems to be racked with agonized sighs: "I breathe deeply trying to relax-a trick I learned from watching basketball players at the foul line...
Early in the final period, inside Dick McIntosh, who played a fine all-around game, charged down field and outran two Williams defenders. Adams managed to deflect McIntosh's shot, but then the entire Crimson line converged on him. Wing Sam Rodd pounded the ball past Adams for the winning goal...
Through all their success since those days, Mike and Elaine have almost conspiratorially managed to deflect inquiries into their private lives. ("I will tell you something," Elaine will say cooperatively, "but I warn you it is a lie.") Elaine has never remarried, and Mike is separated. Since neither makes any sort of conscious effort to search for new ideas-the birth of a sketch is usually accomplished with a simple remark, such as "You be a dentist. I'll be a patient"-they read miscellaneously. Nichols enjoys his subscription to Dog World, even though he has given...
...claims the right to fly over the U.S.S.R., would it have to allow Soviet spy planes to fly over the U.S.? The Russians would have a strong case. The State Department seeks to deflect it by reminders that President Eisenhower has been working toward an internationally recognized right of overflight in his "Open Skies" plan offered at the 1955 summit conference in Geneva...
...tender shoots and the seeds encourage a vast overbreeding of jungle rats. Once this food supply is exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water, and if not drowned, emerge on the far shore, appetites sharpened...