Word: deflection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals of their Party's Old Guard even more...
...score in the second and third cantos but was unable to click more than once, finally succumbing before a fast Tiger attack at 14:05 in the third period. Ralph Wyer passed the puck to Bill MacCoy, who took a shot at the goal which Turner was able to deflect into the net from the edge of the crease...