Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer, shrugged it off: Anybody who tries to steer a course down the middle of the road, he said, has "got to take it from both sides...
...been derided by the idealists as "negative" and "inflexible,'' taxed for such hard-hitting phrases as "massive retaliation and "brink of war." Last week, in a notable speech to the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan, Dulles made it clear that he is trying to steer U.S. policy toward the most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change whereby justice is manifested." and provides for "a system of order based upon the replacement of force by community...
...Rising. The story goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked him in the backside and told him to go home because he was too young to have fought. De Valera's right-hand man for a quarter of a century, Lemass has managed to steer clear of The Long Fella's ancient political quarrels, concentrate instead on the practical business of government...
...joke on Coates is that he knows his Austen far too well. He keeps trying to steer the characters in The Watsons in "original" directions, for fear they will grow too like the characters in other Austen novels-until honest imitation melts into irresistible parody. It all goes to show the difficulties confronting an author who has been raised in the world of Thurber, Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett and must yet deal deadpan with ploys (such as swoons and blushes) of which he has had no experience...
Thus, while the Program talks of "cramped quarters," it also assumes that the College must grow. Harvard, faced with the pressure for expansion and the need for deconversion, is trying to steer a moderate course of "gradual growth...