Word: derail
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...small problem arose when a questioner noted that Johnson "once reached for the presidency" himself and wondered if he might not try again some time. Johnson, who spent much of his time just before the 1960 Democratic Convention desperately buttonholing delegates who might help derail the Kennedy bandwagon, disagreed; he had never ''reached" for the presidency. "My friends put me in the race," said Lyndon. "They felt that they should have representation, and my name should go before the convention." But all in all, Lyndon insisted, life is quite all right. "From a personal standpoint, I am very...
...then kicked the would-be assassin. The man required 14 stitches in his scalp, was taken away to jail. Taking this incident as evidence of "hostility" against their client, Hoffa's hopeful lawyers swiftly moved for a mistrial. But it would probably take more than BB shot to derail the case against Jim Hoffa...
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...