Word: veering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Democratic Italy last week escaped the rock of Scylla only to veer toward the whirlpool of Charybdis. When the returns were in from the 8,000,000 voters in southern Italy's municipal elections, the Communists had been held in check and Rome had been saved by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christian bloc. But a discredited old dogma made a startling comeback and created a new danger...
When the wind blows across a steep, high range, it does not merely veer up and then down. As it descends the leeward slope, the wind often breaks into thick, white, turbulent clouds called "rotors" that look rather like surf foaming up on a beach. Above the rotors are high oscillations in the air, which sometimes reach...