Word: driftful
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...middle-class American and in tracing the changing texture of their life Miss Suckow portrays the loss of faith and security which has followed the war. Their four children seem to be typical middle-western youngsters but the outside change and movement is reflected upon them and they drift rapidly away from their parents. Carl, the eldest and the pet of the family and the town, drifts through force of habit into marriage with a childhood sweetheart and after a few years of struggle to attain a richness and response which his wife cannot give him, he settles down...
From the little tidbits that drift into our hands now and then, it is quite apparent that the ball team took more than a passing interest in the Japanese girls and what is told of open-air baths and bar-room entertainers furnishes plenty of excuse for the six defeats...
Professors: Leadership for the whole educational system is not being supplied by the members of university faculties. These scholars are absorbed in their specialties. They seem to be altogether complacent to let the situation drift...
...family miserable until they let her go to Manhattan. There she plunges into Greenwich Village, loses her irksome virginity, and has a desperate affair with a solid married man, who takes her to the Southwest and parts with her there. When they are both back in Manhattan again they drift inevitably together. But they can never marry, prefer not to think of the future...
...charter granted by William III in 1697 which gave Trinity its land also gave it the right to sell all whales, wrecks and drift materials washed up on the shores of Long Island. Whether the church ever got a whale is not on record, but wags still call up Trinity's rector to ask if he wants a nice whale carcass...