Word: veer
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...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...
Most Common Market decisions are the product of purposeful near collision: a game of diplomatic chicken in which the antagonists wait until the last possible moment to veer off into compromise. Not surprisingly, Europe resounded last week with cries of crisis as the foreign ministers of the Six pre pared to meet in Brussels this week to deal with Britain's second application for Common Market membership...
...Which last week called in 1,143,000 standard-sized 1965 Chevrolets-second largest safety recall ever-for possible replacement of a steering-assembly component that, if worn, can cause a sharp veer when braking, has resulted in four accidents (no injuries...