Word: astraye
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...unnamed representative of the Knights, turned out to contain not only drugs but radios and other luxury goods, which the Knights' diplomatic immunity had got past Italian customs. Not long afterward, five shiploads of Argentine wheat, intended for the Knights' charitable institutions, went astray. Though the Vatican concedes that the Knights were duped by "four or five adventurers," and though the order recovered the cost of the grain, the Pope set up a tribunal of inquiry...
...best of bridegrooms' plans sometimes go astray. A short time later, Lucienne got a letter from her husband saying he was in the best of health and hoped to be home soon. Auguste raced to Professor Pedro. "Has your mistress ever held your watch in her hand?" the professor asked. "Oh, yes," said Auguste. "Then," said the professor, "give me the watch." From then on, Auguste's watch made it easier for Professor Pedro to tell time, but it brought Auguste no closer to his wedding...
...Sometimes," he admitted, "they go astray. They quarrel and cut each other's heads off, which are deplorable occurrences that should be stopped. But even so, it strikes me as perhaps a little better than the more evil practices that prevail in cities." For himself, said the Prime Minister, he "would prefer any day to be a nomad in the hills than be a member of the stock exchange and sit there and listen to those frightfully ugly noises...
Fairbank admitted that "we must set certain limits to our individual freedoms in order to preserve our general freedom," but added that the doctrine, "carried to extremes, could lead us astray...
...into doubtful melodrama, The Works of Love is a moving novel. Novelist Morris has a fine gift for evoking the monotony of village streets at the turn of the century, the mustiness of shabby hotels, the pathos of a man who cannot communicate with other men. When he goes astray, it is usually because he tries too hard to follow the narrow path of Sherwood Anderson's imagination. A writer as good as Wright Morris doesn't need to imitate anyone...