Word: deflected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utterly failed to deflect-French Jazz Pundit Hugues Panassié from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis...
...find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty...
...time through clouds, a gremlin may whisper into the pilot's ear: "You fathead, you're flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets. (But usually this is done by widgets.) Sometimes a gremlin puts his finger over a carburetor jet and makes the motor sound for a moment as if it were conking...
Five goals in nine minutes of the last period by the Yale Freshmen pulled them up from a 6-3 deflect, and they stalled for the rest of the game to overcome the fighting Yardlings. Nat Brackett and Brad Harris scored twice each for the losers, while Al Cook and Captain, Herb Allen came through once each...
...allows a goodly weight saving by eliminating angle-pieces and overlapping necessary for riveting plates together. Unlike welded armor, cast armor has no seams of uncertain toughness. And, unlike both riveted and all-welded armor, cast armor can have rounded corners to deflect glancing shells...