Word: deflects
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...sophomore goaltender Ryan Carroll faced traffic in the crease but stuffed all attempts on net. Cornell’s Ben Scrivens, one of the frontrunners for the Hobey Baker Award for the best college hockey player in the nation, looked comfortable between the pipes, positioning himself well to deflect Crimson attempts on goal...
...into his base. Stein's question was whether Obama would consider instituting a Truth and Reconciliation Committee for Republicans - similar to the one established after apartheid in South Africa - as had been suggested earlier that day by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. Good question, but not a hard one to deflect...
...given the Israeli military a bloody nose during the monthlong war in 2006. Lebanon heads to the polls in June for knife-edge parliamentary elections. If Hizballah and its allies in the opposition win and form the new parliamentary majority, it will greatly strengthen the organization's ability to deflect domestic and foreign demands that it dismantle its military wing. But with Lebanon still recovering from the 2006 conflict, few Lebanese, including its core Shi'ite support base, will thank Hizballah if it provokes a new war with Israel for the sake of its Hamas ally in Gaza...
...reclusion of her illness wills herself to bloom in the presence of someone with a secret mournfulness greater, and perhaps less curable, than her own. It's a lovely performance, in part because her character throws every charm she's got at the one man who seems doomed to deflect...
...Obama gave a wonderfully Russellian defense of Warren on Thursday at a press conference. Americans, he said, need to "come together" even when they disagree on social issues. "That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all about," he said. Russell would often use the same tactic to deflect criticism of his civil rights record. It was a distraction, Russell said, from the important business of the day uniting all Americans. Obama also said today that he is a "fierce advocate for equality" for gays, which is - given his opposition to equal marriage rights - simply a lie. It recalls...