Word: derail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crash Program. In Albany, N.Y., two unemployed laborers were indicted for attempting to derail a freight train so that they could get some work clearing the tracks...
...interested in raising circus attractions. The purpose of experimental teratology, he says, is to learn why and how monsters develop so that the processes can be reversed. Explains Dr.Wolff: "A train passes too quickly for us to find out anything about it while it is moving. To derail the train is a violent method, but this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians how to counteract prenatal infections which sometimes result in the birth of defective children. As the world moves deeper into the atomic age, there...
...Canada before I had finished describing where the body was found." But he also knew that tidiness and brevity - for him - could mean disaster. To Perkins he wrote: "Restrain my adjectives, by all means, discipline my adverbs, moderate the technical extravagances of my incondite exuberance, but don't derail the train, don't take the Pacific Limited and switch it down the siding towards Hogwart Junction...
...rearmament in the camp of the West would kill the last hope of German unification. Just before the Socialists' offensive jumped off, Russia's Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov dropped down on East Berlin's airport and produced from his briefcase a diplomatic time bomb designed to derail the London agreement...
Said Chairman Chelf: "It appears to me that there was a definite attempt either to flag down, delay, sidetrack, derail or entirely wreck this grand-jury investigation." The committee voted to call in ex-Attorney General McGrath for a fuller explanation...