Word: veer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer courses in theater are careful to include in their catalogues a note disclaiming any specific intent to prepare young people for professional careers in the theater. They talk about drama and the theater as adjuncts or components of the liberal arts training, but--possible for tactical reasons--they veer sharply away from any implication of professionalism, from any suggestion that their students are being prepared for careers in the professional world of the theater. Yet the completeness of their curriculum in Speech or Drama or whatever it's called, the very existence of a "major in theater arts," inevitably...
...Academy of Fine Arts, his salon-painting professors dismissed him as "an ignorant dreamer." He grew into a moody recluse, so pale and thin that some of his neighbors called him the Grim Reaper. His silences seemed endless, but his sudden outbursts could be terrifying. His work began to veer from his first subdued "middleclass interiors" and his early brilliant portraits into a macabre art that was like nothing else being done...
Identity Poetry has presented an issue of prose, and it leads one to wish the magazine would veer from verse more often. Although the issue is short, it contains two pieces of high quality and only one that might better have been left...
...autopilot on Electras must not be used until modified. FAA found that it did not work properly, made the plane "porpoise," i.e., jump sharply up and down and veer from side to side. ¶ Ground crews were ordered to be more careful in refueling the plane, since there has been "at least one incident in which serious damage to the wing structure resulted from malfunctioning of fuel-system components, and failure of servicing personnel" to do their job properly...