Word: astraye
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...attacking zone, the Soviet defensemen provided the groundwork of the Russian's offensive game with extraordinarily powerful drives from the point, many of them being shot while the puck was still in motion from a pass. The Russian teamwork was such that their passes almost never went astray, and the Crimson found it nearly impossible to take the puck away or even to retain possession of it for more than a few seconds...
...furiously prohibited the Club from ever returning, so vast was the damage in shattered glass and splintered wood. And returning from one of these extravaganzas last year, one Club member carefully aimed a fist at a fellow member only to lay flat a punchee when his drunken blow went astray...
...instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal-minded computer will not be led astray...
...ball went astray and Repsher raced after it. He was, however, cleanly tackled by a Princeton end--a flagrantly illegal maneuvre that permitted the Tigers to recover the fumble. 35,000 paying customers saw this, but the referees apparently did not. At any rate, the Tigers were awarded possession, and three plays later they had their second touchdown. This conversion (like the first one) they made on a reverse pass...
...Mormons reply that the sheep are simply returning to their proper fold after centuries astray. Their missionaries find an ancient kinship with the Pacific's brown-skinned peoples in a passage from the Book of Mormon, which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth...