Word: derail
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...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...
...measure of Guatemala City's anti-Communist feeling that this semiprofessional campaign could so handily derail the government machine. But such diverse groups as university students, Indian market women, landowners and small businessmen have been increasingly mortified at their country's Red-splashed reputation. These anti-Communist groups, uniting to vote for Lizarralde, handed the government the first significant ballot-box rejection of its leftward trend since 1948. "In the capital, even the cobblestones are anti-Communist," explained Lizarralde. "I consider my victory a great triumph for democracy...
...death, and the details of his life, made Big Nose George something of a folk hero around Rawlins. He had made a career of shooting men and chasing women and had climaxed it by removing spikes from the Union Pacific Railroad's main line in an attempt to derail a pay train. The attempt failed. But when a posse set out after him, George and a companion named "Dutch Charley" Burris bushwhacked two of them, killed them, and also stole their horses-about as low a crime as a man could commit. Dutch Charley was lynched almost as soon...
...been out of receivership only a few brief hours when it crashed into another derail. Its motormen, switchmen and trainmen, fully aware of the road's bright new prospects, capped the big day by calling a strike. They wanted the 18½? raise already granted to most other railroad workers. This, cried C.A. & E. President Arthur L. Schwartz, would cost $285,000, put the road right back in the red. He offered 14½?. The offer was rejected...