Word: veer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed with an automatic rifle, a German carbine and a revolver. They failed because the Dictator chanced...
...starboard tack having the right of way, the We're Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course. In a sequence in which suspense is built with a series of superb effect shots, the We're Here avoids getting cut in half, forces Captain Cushman to veer away. Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails, the backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear. Cut to pieces by the wire cable in which...
Below in the two launches, cameras clicked. For seconds all was well. Then the people in the launches gasped as the plummeting body, having touched fingers and toes in a back jackknife, was seen to straighten and then veer, swing crazily in the air-pressure and smash, spread-legged, into the water on shoulders and back. "He's dead!" someone shrieked...
...starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play safe Captain Binks ordered the helmsmen to veer ten degrees farther to port. When the lightship was amazingly sighted dead ahead through the fog it was too late to avoid collision...
...fast chart to which is electrically transmitted the power station chart-record. The radio announcer says: "Those ready to vote, push the 'Present' button." Thousands of voters push. This sudden mass consumption of extra current causes the recording line on the power house and studio charts to veer almost at right angles, forming a needle-like peak. Since each push-button consumes a measured amount of current, the height of this peak can at once be translated into the approximate number of voters. The announcer then asks for a "Yes" ballot, in a few moments more...