Word: veers
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Finally we must consider the welfare of the team. Men will be men. The well-turned thigh and ample chest of a young women cannot leave them unaffected. The defense will no longer regard the opponents. As if on one head, their twenty-two eyes will veer toward the sidelines, towards the jumping girls thereon. In general, the proximity of muscular Harvard men and Radcliffe women will lead to what it has always led; shoddy passes...
...dubious business, transcated by people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides an excuse...
...reform has cooled may temper the results of the council. Some U.S. prelates who privately shrug off their early enthusiasm for John XXIII may be inclined this session to side with the Roman Curia, which has worked skillfully to limit the council's powers. One sign of this veer toward conservatism: on the Rome press panel set up by the U.S. hierarchy, which offered daily guidance on the council to bishops and priests as well as journalists, three of the most liberal interpreters-German Moral Theologian Bernard Haring, Labor Expert Monsignor George Higgins and Paulist Father John Sheerin...
...SOUTHEAST ASIA, the President resisted the temptation to veer off on a new tack in the ugly guerrilla war in South Viet Nam. Bolstered by the latest on-the-spot report from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Johnson decided to ignore both those who would neutralize the country and those who would carry the fight across the 17th parallel into North Viet Nam. Instead, he reaffirmed the slow, painful course that the U.S. has been following for some three years. "We must stay there and help them," he said, "and that is what we are going to do." Equally important...
...reportedly found in a field with five of its six safety interlocks set off. Such peace able activities as weather control have taken risks with equally destructive energies, as when the early Project Cirrus seeded an Atlantic hurricane with dry ice, only to have it veer 120° to sideswipe a thinly populated stretch of Georgia coast. Yet if a large-scale disaster actually does occur in a Government program, the injured public has no assurance of compensation...