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Critics are intrigued by the dramatic story of successful 19 th -century gynecological surgeon Mary Amanda Dixon Jones, whose career was derailed by a smear campaign.
Recent ill-timed blunders (including the failed attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader) have derailed the peace process.
The simple fact of their detention could have derailed the plan.
Until personal problems temporarily derailed him in 1987, he was well on his way to high political office and all the rewards that brings in later life.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .