Word: veer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only once did Khrushchev veer from world events. Leaning toward a group of pushbuttons, he avoided a big red button, pushed a black one. which almost immediately brought an assistant to his side. After a quick, untranslated conversation in Russian, the assistant left, and came back a few minutes later with a biography of Baldassare Cossa, a successful pirate who became Pope John XXIII...
...away, plus equipment to collect airborne radioactivity from Soviet nuclear tests. But the crowded U-2 carries few sophisticated navigational aids, and, to complicate the pilot's task, the plane, because of its gliderlike design, is easily blown off course. These factors forced the Air Force pilot to veer over Sakhalin...
...middle road is a difficult political path to follow, especially in Latin America, and Brazil's President Joao ("Jango") Goulart may yet veer back into the leftist demagoguery that gave him his start as a labor leader. But last week he showed that he means what he says about fiscal stability, economic austerity, and a fair shake for foreign investors. At the same time, as an astute politician, he remembered his vows to the nationalists who have long been his supporters...
...husky, seven-year-old boy saw the cyclist change direction and, just for the hell of it, veer straight for him. But instead of leaping out of the way as the cyclist had assumed he would, the lad defiantly planted his feet, held his ground-and ended up with a broken leg. Last week, at 29, Dickie Moore could still grow stiff with anger when he recalled the incident. "I didn't like being pushed around then," he said, "and I don't like to be pushed around...
...fouled the mechanism controlling the Electra's great paddle-bladed props. And although the Electra is designed to fly on two engines in an emergency, the unlikely loss of two engines on one side at a critical point just after take-off might well cause the ship to veer sharply and spin...