Word: veer
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...occasional source of anxiety to its more affluent neighbors in the north. That anxiety has been notably increased by exceptional changes that have shaken countries of the south in recent months. There is a notable fear that these nations, in some cases after decades of right-wing rule, will veer sharply to the left, perhaps to the point of embracing Communist, or at least Communist-dominated governments (see following stories...
When the post-Christmas holidays of cheers, Veer's, parades and national titles roll by, the East Coast football afficionado slips deeper into his armchair, eggnog and enlightened cynicism over "big-time" college football out in the provinces...
LEHIGH-PENN--Penn's Veer offense was 11th best in the nation last year, and though Don Clune is finally gone, too many of the faces (QB Marty Vaughn, tailback Adolph Bellizeare) are the same. The season begins tonight on a good note for the Red and Blue. Penn 31, Lehigh...
...Khaldun, and later, like-minded prophets, did not calculate that the cycles could be broken, that history could simply veer off in another direction. As Journalist-Critic A.J. Liebling noted, Ibn-Khaldun's determinism was refuted by "the vigor of Renaissance thought, the technological advances and the discovery of the New World...
Conventional wisdom now judges politicians by how fractionally they veer from the center: Barry Goldwater and George McGovern stand condemned for their inability or unwillingness to come in from the extreme; Nelson Rockefeller is studied with fascination as he carefully calibrates his evolution away from seeming too liberal for his party. Senator Charles Percy, advised to adopt a similar course, recently objected that "a swing to the right would devastate my credibility." Such maneuvering, such manufacturing of new credentials by politicians in dogged pursuit of the shifting middle, adds to the current cynicism about office seekers. It also adds...