Word: sidetracked
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...Soviet Foreign Ministry last June, the day before the ceremonial reception to Marshal Tito, the reason seemed obvious: as the man who had signed the letters that expelled Yugoslavia from the Cominform, Molotov was unacceptable to Tito. The fact that the Soviet leaders were willing to sidetrack Molotov after years of service showed that they attached much importance to winning back Tito. The man they pushed forward in Molotov's place was a burly, bushy-haired fellow with a mobile face, Dmitry T. Shepilov, Central Committee secretary and Pravda editor...
...amid the worst of last winter's snows, Nannarella stole a march on the other captains and queens by bribing a railroad official to sidetrack a trainload of potatoes from Germany for her own use. "Providence will provide," she told the other captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told...
This unexpected action seems to sidetrack effectively the NCC's minority which was prepared to veto any name change--thus blocking the merger. With a two-thirds majority needed to make the NCC the "Young Conservative Club," it was doubtful if Brady could have succeeded in the merger...
...Billy traveled all over the U.S. and the world, preaching in a different town every day. In 1946, the aging president of a small college (Northwestern Schools in Minneapolis) announced he thought it was God's will that Graham be his successor. Graham, who thought the job would sidetrack him, replied tartly: "If the Lord has called me to do this, why doesn't He tell us both, instead of just...
...very honest individual [who] got mousetrapped in the very rough politics played down here." Of Adams he said tolerantly, at one point: "I wouldn't want to accuse him of perjury . . . John is badly mistaken." Even the McCarthy charge that Stevens and Adams had sought to sidetrack the McCarthy committee investigations of the Army by offering "dirt" on the Air Force and Navy was airily dismissed...