Word: veer
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...middle road is a difficult political path to follow, especially in Latin America, and Brazil's President Joao ("Jango") Goulart may yet veer back into the leftist demagoguery that gave him his start as a labor leader. But last week he showed that he means what he says about fiscal stability, economic austerity, and a fair shake for foreign investors. At the same time, as an astute politician, he remembered his vows to the nationalists who have long been his supporters...
...husky, seven-year-old boy saw the cyclist change direction and, just for the hell of it, veer straight for him. But instead of leaping out of the way as the cyclist had assumed he would, the lad defiantly planted his feet, held his ground-and ended up with a broken leg. Last week, at 29, Dickie Moore could still grow stiff with anger when he recalled the incident. "I didn't like being pushed around then," he said, "and I don't like to be pushed around...
...fouled the mechanism controlling the Electra's great paddle-bladed props. And although the Electra is designed to fly on two engines in an emergency, the unlikely loss of two engines on one side at a critical point just after take-off might well cause the ship to veer sharply and spin...
...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...