Word: detours
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Thus, the blame for the political irresponsibility exhibited during the selection of a Dance Manager falls on your heads. You must answer when the actions of your representatives inexcusably detour the normal, established procedure of student government...
Reason for the detour: In forced landings in Germany on the Vienna-London run, Jewish passengers with through tickets were taken up by the Gestapo and disappeared. Presumably they wound up in concentration camps...
...than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great event...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
...approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good boy and wait; his reward would come. But Happy said: "The time to run is when you're in office." He went ahead full steam...