Word: deflected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard junior goalkeeper Anne Browning doveheadlong to her right to deflect the ball--rightoff the knee of teammate Ashley Berman and backinto the net. Berman's own goal was credited toCCSU freshman Nicole Davis...
...themselves unable to effect real change. Earth Liberation Fronters forsook the demands of democracy (reason, persuasion) when they formed the loose-knit movement in 1992. Some say they were angry that their mother group, Earth First!, wouldn't promote sabotage. Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly helped torch two facilities in Oregon used to corral and slaughter wild horses, and they are the suspected culprits in the escape...
...22nd minute, Lenichek started an attack with a run up the left sideline, then slipped a ball through traffic into the box for freshman forward Marko Soldo, who was able to put a hard shot on net from 15 yards out only to see Barton deflect it away...
...week, Burton had owned up to the Indianapolis Star what Indiana political circles had been buzzing about for years: that he had fathered an illegitimate son in the early 1980s. He told the paper he wanted to go public to deflect attention from the boy and his mother...
...this statistical confluence a mere coincidence, a reflection of hard-won marital wisdom or an indication of the sorts of rationalizations relied on by husbands who can't deflect blame onto a "politically inspired lawsuit" or an investigation that has "gone on too long"? The matter awaits further study. The numbers for women are less synchronous: while upwards of 15% of wives may have been unfaithful, according to the Chicago study, 22% agreed with the statement in the TIME/CNN poll that infidelity is unavoidable. Whether this is a function of charity, resignation or some other phenomenon also awaits further analysis...