Word: errantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bank's annual report, largely written by U.S. Economist Milton Gilbert, not only commands enormous respect among moneymen but often talks like a Dutch uncle to errant governments. Last week, for example, it skewered the U.S. and West Germany for forcing central banks to do the dirty work in restraining inflationary 1966 economies. Rapping Washington for "the indecisive way" in which it dealt last year with the question of raising taxes, the report said: "There is nothing wrong with the 'new economics.' The trouble was the failure to act promptly and effectively...
...Errant Orator...
Specter's mayoral qualifications are exemplary: as assistant attorney general, he singlehandedly reformed Philadelphia's corrupt magisterial system and convicted three errant magistrates (TIME, Oct. 1, 1965); as D.A. he initiated a round-the-clock police court to speed justice for minor offenders and won Negro support by padlocking dives in "the jungle" of North Philadelphia. Previously backed by the Americans for Democratic Action despite his party switch, Specter also has the wholehearted support of Philadelphia's Republican Boss William Meehan...
...court has yet to work out an accommodation between the constitutional rights of free press and fair trial, lawyers are proposing crime-news curbs that leave the U.S. press aghast. The press is now all but accusing the bar of yearning to imitate the British system of jailing errant editors for contempt...
...fiction, "Grisha's Dream," by Gus Magrinat, is a vigorous little story about a moribund "retired intellectual." ("An intellectual is a man who has never forgotten his subconscious. A retired intellectual is an old man who, after years of grappling with himself, finds his intellect wandering like a knight errant and his appetites spent in a trickle of compulsions.") Magrinat's narrative is so engaging and moves so quickly that you are likely to find Grisha dead and the story finished before you realize that you've become pretty fond of the grandfatherly, lonesome eccentric...