Word: derail
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...anybody going to derail the Crimson express...
...Maitland's view there is no humanity in such a war and the book's cast of caricatures exhibits none. They include Wilkinson, a cowardly war correspondent; a general who invents a major enemy offensive to derail the Paris peace talks (rival U.S. Army and Marine Corps units end up bombarding each other); and a CIA agent who, while posing as a beggar, learns of a Tet offensive against the most cherished spot in Saigon...
Those of you who are keeping a record of my accuracy, and I'm sure there are many of you, have noticed that 12 of my last 13 prophecies have come to pass. I've got momentum now, and it's going to take a mighty force to derail me. I'm fortunate again today to have a fairly predictable bunch of games, and probably only the Princeton Yale affair could turn out to be a blemish. But Coach Yovicsin has acknowledged how difficult it often is to make such prognostications, "Hell, I don't know anything about comparing football...
Princeton, which ranks right behind Yale in both offense and defense, has lost four games, but all by less than seven points. This will be the Tigers' third attempt in four weeks to derail an undefeated Ivy League team...
...Rockefeller is the G.O.P.'s most electable candidate, he is also its least nominatable one. His short-lived attempt to derail Nixon in 1960 and his failure to back Barry Goldwater in 1964 still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention...