Word: veer
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...university student has had a hard time fitting into programs of village health, irrigation, or literacy. All too often, traditional desire for a white-collar job and his own economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life and to veer toward the political left. The proposed Mutual Service Program would put responsibility squarely on two hundred students at Delhi and provide them with enough money for manual service during vacations, as well as village surveys and seminars during the school year. This is hardly charity; it is not even "helping others...
...airplanes and Weather Bureau radar and spinning northward at only four miles per hour. By Monday afternoon, Carol was captured by the planetary wind. It picked up her whirling mass and carried it north northeastward at 18 to 20 m.p.h. The weathermen, studying their charts, expected her to veer more sharply to the east and pass harmlessly east of Nantucket...
...narration and music, however, veer sharply from Stobart's camera technique. Meredith Edwards, in voicing the sometimes Biblical-sounding narration, rolls his R's with as much power as the occasional avalanches. The original underscoring, while appropriately Himalayan and amusing at times, disgorges climax after climax during some of the climbing episodes. Your soon come to imagine the crest of Everest in every frequent shot of a minor crag...
...Club-- swung out from under the Cottage Farm Bridge. And as Harvard--a third of a length ahead with ten strokes to go-- crossed the finish line, the charter boat swung between the two shells. Just missing the Orange and Black starboard oars, it forced the Princeton shell to veer to the shore. The Crimson, clearly a winner before the mishap, was at first awarded the race, but reversing the decision, the judges declared the race no contest. The Crimson was clocked in 9:23 to Princeton...
...this year, but his influence is the key to the state's Senatorial election. Twelve years of frenzied but fruitless support of Taft as its favorite-son candidate for President has made the Senator a martyred hero in the state. Although Ohio's economic and racial complexion would normally veer the state toward liberalism, this Taft fixation has given Ohio's politics a strangely conservative tinge. Senator John Bricher's chances for reelection depend to a great extent on his ability to take advantage of the senior Senator's popularity...