Word: veer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originally planned, the temporary roads, carrying traffic coming West from Broadway and North from Harvard Square on Peabody St., would have almost touched Littauer Center on two sides. The road coming from Harvard Square was to come within 40 ft. of the front of Littauer and then veer to the East. The other was to pass within 15 ft. of Littauer's back steps...
Humphrey will probably veer from his printed text and talk about Vietnam something he has done in his last three speeches, according to William H. Wells director of public relations at Tufts...
Finally we must consider the welfare of the team. Men will be men. The well-turned thigh and ample chest of a young women cannot leave them unaffected. The defense will no longer regard the opponents. As if on one head, their twenty-two eyes will veer toward the sidelines, towards the jumping girls thereon. In general, the proximity of muscular Harvard men and Radcliffe women will lead to what it has always led; shoddy passes...
...dubious business, transcated by people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides an excuse...
...reform has cooled may temper the results of the council. Some U.S. prelates who privately shrug off their early enthusiasm for John XXIII may be inclined this session to side with the Roman Curia, which has worked skillfully to limit the council's powers. One sign of this veer toward conservatism: on the Rome press panel set up by the U.S. hierarchy, which offered daily guidance on the council to bishops and priests as well as journalists, three of the most liberal interpreters-German Moral Theologian Bernard Haring, Labor Expert Monsignor George Higgins and Paulist Father John Sheerin...