Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-placed Eli corner kick created two Yale shots from in close. Reilly was able to deflect the first with a diving save, but the Crimson failed to clear the rebound. Freshman forward Dawn Bushnaq knocked the ball in for the visitors, netting the lone goal of the wet afternoon...
With the Crimson clinging to a 10-7 lead in the second quarter, it was Gordian's turn again. This time, he was the one who broke free into the backfield and managed to deflect Lutz's kick with his left palm off to the sideline, where the ball settled at the Princeton 11-yard line...
Reilly did her best Mitch Gaylord immitation--making saves only a gymnast could get to. With nearly 17 minutes remaining, Princeton forced the keeper to dive for the save. The Tigers picked up the rebound, and Reilly had to jump to deflect that...
...serve would boost their efforts to break the other party's stranglehold on the House by forcing popular Democrats to quit long before the voters would force them to retire. But any broad effort to restrict the tenure of lawmakers could have an unintended negative effect: it might deflect public attention -- and rage -- away from what the people's representatives are actually doing in Congress to a debate over whether they should be thrown out on a set schedule regardless of their performance...
...usual rules don't apply here. Freedman just assumed they were guilty," said Charles Horner, an official at the Madison Center for Educational Affairs, a conservative think-tank in Washington that gives grants to campus publications. "The regime at Dartmouth would rather deflect criticism from its real problems...