Word: veer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf of Mexico, these large cyclonic systems result from a peculiar blend of heat, winds, atmospheric pressure and moisture. Anywhere from 100 to 800 miles across, they rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah, Flora, Dora...
...School of Medicine who has studied wives of submarine sailors, says that extreme dependency is common in wives who never fully break from strong childhood attachments to their mothers. Such women unconsciously come to view their husbands as a source of the same security that their mothers provided and veer easily into breakdowns when their men are away...
...rage for relevance often seems to induce the opposite effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...
...read The Realist. It is necessary and important to know that there are other potentialities and possibilities from those one tends to automatically veer towards, and even if one were to not rush out to set up a free community one could perhaps be moved in the mystical manner of the diggers. It is difficult to curb the fluttering feeling induced by phrase-segments like, "Free Time! Free Time? What was time before it was bought...
...downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...