Word: sidetracked
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...Moscow anxiety was acute lest Realmleader Hitler sidetrack Britain and France into a more mutual pact against unprovoked air aggression in Western Europe, leaving the Eastern Locarno barren and betrayed. What the Soviet Union fears is that some day Europe's Capitalist Powers will realize where their interest lies, namely in a drastic settlement of Eastern Europe's frontier problems at Bolshevik Russia's expense...
...religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared a Catholic, probably sent to a Catholic boarding school. Mrs. Vanderbilt promptly offered more personal care. She said she would send Gloria to study daytimes at a Catholic convent in The Bronx. "I want...
...Born in the little town of Olive Oil. New Jersey, in 1912, Mr. Grabblestump passed an uneventful childhood spending his summers in Sidetrack, Connecticut, or Bar Harbor, and his winters in grammar school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like...
...Voted (44-10-25) to sidetrack the Glass banking bill for more pressing legislation...
...Conferences now being held at Basle, although they have yielded in interest to such epochal events as the Lenz-Culbertson bridge contest, are, to those concerned with the economic future of Germany, of superior importance. Attempts by the French to sidetrack discussion of the whole German economic situation failed, and the hope was thereby renewed that the Committee's repot may be a fairly accurate and authoritative statement of Germany's ability...