Word: veer
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...Programs. Tories also took new heart from the P.M.'s shrewd deployment of Cabinet talents. Many Britons still suspect that under his leadership the party may veer away from the progressive policies that have kept it in power for twelve years. Their fears were sharpened by the defection of Iain Macleod, a principal architect of the New Conservatism, who resigned as leader of the House and party co-chairman rather than serve under the new Prime Minister...
...fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under the steer wrestler's horse; others, tough-necked, will not stop at all until they bang the horn-hanging cowboy against the ring wall...
...tourists, most of them off cruise ships, bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what tourists want...
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...