Word: deviationism
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Now in his slowly descending approach to the landing runway, Captain Reid was flying along the shallow arc of a radio glide path. This was standard airline technique-to make bad-weather landings by I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System), with two crossed needles on the instrument panel to register any deviation...
In retirement, my function now is to keep Gamesmanship from wandering from its basic principles, and may I therefore remind your Sport Editor that the suggestion that "the final score is the proof of the gambit" is a deviation from the Gamesmanship line?
. . . Your recent write-ups on organized vice, municipal corruption, McCarthyism and moral deviation in high places surely must have brought home to a lot of readers the one salient fact that the U.S. . . . shouldn't be allowed to fumble on as a self-governing country . . .
The plot is quite simple. An old man, once a leader of the Russian revolution, is arrested during the Communist purge trials of 1937, and his prosecutor uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist...
By itself, says Dr. Rosenbaum, the electrocardiograph cannot tell the heart's whole story. If the graph shows a minor deviation from normal, the doctor usually mutters something about "strain" and orders the patient to give up some of his favorite activities. This exaggerated caution causes many patients "serious...