Word: veer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUTHEAST ASIA, the President resisted the temptation to veer off on a new tack in the ugly guerrilla war in South Viet Nam. Bolstered by the latest on-the-spot report from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Johnson decided to ignore both those who would neutralize the country and those who would carry the fight across the 17th parallel into North Viet Nam. Instead, he reaffirmed the slow, painful course that the U.S. has been following for some three years. "We must stay there and help them," he said, "and that is what we are going to do." Equally important...
...reportedly found in a field with five of its six safety interlocks set off. Such peace able activities as weather control have taken risks with equally destructive energies, as when the early Project Cirrus seeded an Atlantic hurricane with dry ice, only to have it veer 120° to sideswipe a thinly populated stretch of Georgia coast. Yet if a large-scale disaster actually does occur in a Government program, the injured public has no assurance of compensation...
...Programs. Tories also took new heart from the P.M.'s shrewd deployment of Cabinet talents. Many Britons still suspect that under his leadership the party may veer away from the progressive policies that have kept it in power for twelve years. Their fears were sharpened by the defection of Iain Macleod, a principal architect of the New Conservatism, who resigned as leader of the House and party co-chairman rather than serve under the new Prime Minister...
...fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under the steer wrestler's horse; others, tough-necked, will not stop at all until they bang the horn-hanging cowboy against the ring wall...
...tourists, most of them off cruise ships, bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what tourists want...