Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jaworski came to Washington alone and took a double suite at the Jefferson Hotel. His office, four blocks away, was a cramped, bare-walled cubicle with the curtains pulled to thwart snoopers. He walked unrecognized from hotel to office, a single figure among Washington's masses. Across McPherson Square and down two blocks was the White House, floodlighted, guarded, crawling with people and heavy with the trappings of power...
Employing a full rotation of players, the Exeter squad had a fresh group in the pool the whole match. But a good offense is a good defense, and the Crimson aquamen maintained constant pressure on their foes to thwart Exeter attempts to muster an offense...
...sacked the country's ten leading generals and replaced them with men of his own choice. He also purged former Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides, who had led the dreaded military police under the junta and who was widely blamed for planning the move against Makarios. Partially to thwart the left and the left's leading figure, Andreas Papandreou, 55, he pulled Greece out of NATO and pointedly hinted that he might close American bases in Greece. Both steps are long-sought goals of the left. "It was uncanny, I must say," said Papandreou, apparently not certain whether...
...brief lover's fight in the second. The director and the actors must build all the visual and verbal humor upon the nearly barren skeleton of the script and, at each performance, the actors must keenly tune the pace and style to suit the particular audience in order to thwart that "first sinister cough of boredom," as Sir Noel so aptly put it. At the Tufts Arena Theater, on Friday night at least, no one coughed...
Hamlisch has lived in Hollywood for the past two years, but he remains an unreconstructed New Yorker. Working at home on a rented moviola (a hand-operated viewer on which a film can be studied frame by frame), he even keeps the curtains drawn to thwart the distracting California sunshine. "Look at me," he says proudly, "I'm as pale as a Long Islander in February." He likes to tell about his own case of inflated Hollywooditis after the awards. "I thought," he says, snapping his fingers in fandango-like recall, " 'Baby, you are the real goods-Cole...