Word: derailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend...
That loss didn't derail the Crimson Princeton-bound train, as both Mike Terner and Adam Beren--playing four and five, respectively-rebounded from first-set losses to win their matches. Terner beat Adil Toubia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Beren fought back to tame Lion Don Siegel...
Never a strong believer in the effectiveness or fairness of using higher prices to cut consumption, Eizenstat sniped incessantly at the gasoline tax. He managed to derail the proposal just before Christmas, when Carter's improved standing in the polls made the President even less willing than before to take an unpopular position...