Word: derailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become too great a liability for a White House that has been striving to demonstrate that it is capable of national leadership. Not only had Young's deception gravely embarrassed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but the meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed the dismissal on Jewish pressure...
...navigation, damaging an already precarious ecological balance. When the ice is broken and heat trapped in the water below is released, so the argument goes, the life cycles of various fish may be affected. Just this January an environmental group in New York State called Save the River helped derail a similar navigation study projected for the St. Lawrence Seaway. For Captain Hall, the irony of his role as a public servant helping to keep the furnaces of the domestic steel industry stoked is cheerfully clear. Says he sardonically: "After it got started, the free-enterprise system worked well...
Moving with the force of a runaway freight, a strike by railroad clerks swept the country last week and, before it ended, seriously snarled most of the nation's train traffic and threatened to derail much of the economy. If nothing else, the four-day ruckus showed just how dependent the U.S. still is on its rail system-and how quickly it can be disrupted by a single union...
Meanwhile Israel braced itself for a new round of terrorist violence, which was plainly calculated to derail the Begin-Sadat-Carter summit meeting that is scheduled for next week at Camp David. Israeli television broadcast graphic?and all too true-to-life?programs instructing viewers on how to cope with terrorist bombs. A citizens' organization set up a fund to pay the equivalent of a $550 reward to anyone who discovered and reported an explosive device. At police urging, homeowners began checking their residences twice daily for terrorist booby traps. So far, the extraordinary precautions have paid off". More than...
...statement of Basic Principles signed by Nixon and Brezhnev. This committed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to prevent situations "capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations" and "which would serve to increase international tensions." Moscow has ignored that pledge by its military intervention in Ethiopia, persistent attempts to derail Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Middle East peace initiative, and efforts to discredit the Anglo-American formula for the peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in southern Africa...