Word: astraye
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...pretty her hair was! Who could tell That things would go so far astray...
There is also the plight of a diamond dandy in Tally One for Me: I soon will stop my "balling" For my heart is led astray 'Twas stolen by a nice young girl By her exquisite play...
Bird lovers are notorious worriers; they worry, among other things, about hunters, egg collectors and cats. Now they have a new worry: radar. In Germany last week, they were blaming radar for leading wild birds and homing pigeons astray. During a recent race of 8,000 British pigeons, nearly all of the contestants disappeared on a 210-mile course between Wales and Northern Ireland. Such "catastrophe flights" are normally blamed on bad weather, but the German ornithologists say that they are commoner now than they used to be. A pigeon race near Karlsruhe lost...
...theory behind the judge's sentences is a simple one. Except for obvious criminals, says he, most young people "have simply gone astray and must get another chance. They must perform some good deed related to the bad." Before each trial, Holzschuh tries to get to know the defendant. He makes the accused talk about his interests, asks him about the books he reads. Then, when the judge has heard the case, he makes the punishment fit the crime. Among the cases he has handled...
...Kuni, who is said to have developed the Kabuki theater from ceremonial shrine dances. At first, most of O-Kuni's female players were young courtesans, and as time went on, their costumes, gyrations and behavior developed an air of such gay abandon that "many people were led astray," say Japanese authorities. In 1629, women were forbidden to take part in the Kabuki theaters, and male actors have played all the female roles ever since...