Word: sidesteps
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...punt was short and wobbled dangerously close to the left sideline. Grant took it on the run and found himself behind a phalanx of blockers. He plunged straight ahead for 35 yards, then tried to sidestep Randall and brushed the sideline with his foot at the Brown...
...think you perhaps have something there that would be in the nature of an altogether new truth. It is quite possible that a woman who goes to sleep and dreams of getting a new plaid-stamp book is not quite as undignified as she appears to be. People actually sidestep the pain of death and despair by the thought of purchasing things. I am a traditionalist. I live in an old house, come from an old family, but the time for gravity or even making fun of people who go to bed and dream of having 17 plaid-stamp books...
Burning Anxiety. Such legitimate attacks on Hochhuth's portrayal of the Pope sidestep the key question raised by his play: Why did Pius XII, who condemned the aerial bombing of civilian centers and the postwar aggressions of Communism, not explicitly attack the liquidation of Europe's Jews? The issue has intrigued many modern historians, since Pius clearly detested Hitler's totalitarianism as much as he loved the German people. He helped draft Pius XI's encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Sorrow), which condemned Nazi racism in 1937. When the Germans organized a roundup of Roman...
...five related cases of civil rights demonstrators arrested on trespass charges at a restaurant and an amusement park in Maryland, lunch counters in South Carolina and Florida. Since a ban on discrimination in public accommodations is part of President Kennedy's pending civil rights bill, the court may sidestep the broad issue, overrule the trespass convictions on narrow grounds...
...selected from the list of owners of either real property or personalty, but that whites are listed in front of the tax book, and Negroes in the back on yellow pages. Then the clerk of the court, Leslie Bush, a thin man with brush hair cut, tried to sidestep the emerging evidence that an "N" was placed after Negroes on the jury lists. Except he called them "niggers" and Atty. Hollowell requested the court to reprimand the witness for using improper language. The court refused and Bush declared that he had been using the word all his life and Hollowell...