Word: sidetracked
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...Poles who listened were more than merely sorry. Throughout Poland, the continuing attempts of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime to sidetrack the millennial festivities have created a darkening mood of resentment that is spreading from the deeply religious to those who normally take a more impartial stance. The government has staged rival celebrations, temporarily detained bishops and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski himself, dragged individual citizens off to police stations on grounds that they had been "planning to take a trip to Czestochowa," or "standing by" during anti-regime demonstrations. Tens of thousands of peasants have been left by the roadside...
What would the teen-age marrieds advise their own children to do? Said a 19-year-old motorcycle enthusiast who had to sidetrack a law career and go to work in a cement plant when he found his wife-to-be was pregnant: "I don't think it's a good idea for young people to get married; there are too many things to do then. But it's so hard for a teen-ager to say, This is my judgment,' when in your own experience you don't know what you've done...
Having people actually do things, rather than just read about them, has been anathema around here for quite awhile. The usual argument against 'practical' courses asserts that Harvard is a liberal arts College and that therefore mere 'technical training' would sidetrack students from their main educational concerns, sullying the snowy white linen of pure scholarship...
...cost her 20 years to achieve it, is embodied in Ship of Fools-a book that is magnificently ingenious but coldly calculated, loveless and finally unbelievable. It is Katherine Anne Porter's tragedy that at the climax of her creative life, she shunted herself onto a sidetrack and went careering to a dead...
...days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada. Even more ingenious were Viryl and Laura Scott, who in 1959 set off with their six children on an excursion into the Grand Canyon, foolishly turned off the main road onto a little-used sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine...