Word: astraye
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Sometimes in groups, more often alone, they swagger through Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu and other smart-set residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...
...occasional forays into literature are also, occasionally, rewarding--his discussion of asymmetry and ambiguity, for example. But here, too, linguistic analogies often lead him astray. There is something crudely reductionist about his view of poetry as prose dressed up by poetic transformations, and his claim that the sound structure ("phonology") of poetry works against structure and meaning ("syntax" and "semantics") ignores the work of linguists and literary critics alike...
...ground ball. Durso walked to lead off the inning, took second on a passed ball, advanced to third after he tagged up on Ric LaCivita's foul fly to first and scored when the throw to third from the first baseman went astray...
...Mike Reynolds started the uprising with a walk. That was followed by a groundball to first baseman Leigh Hogan, whose peg to second went astray, leaving two on and no outs...
Carl McNutt, the captain and designated hitter, drove in a run with a single and two more scored as Harrell's pick-off attempt to first went astray. The fourth and final run came in on Gary Miller's double, and that was all for Harrell, who exited in favor of Walsh...