Word: errantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th U.S. Congress convenes this week, it will be shadowed from the start by an irritating, embarrassing dilemma: what to do about Adam Clayton Powell, the errant, arrogant Democratic Representative from Harlem...
Bobby Bauer will be missing from the lineup for Harvard. The sophomore center was hit in the left eye with an errant B.C. stick last Wednesday, and suffered a contusion of the cornea as well as a cut and swelling. While the injury is not serious, Bauer may skip the Dartmouth game, too, to make sure everything is healed before he goes into action again in February...
Walls and bars are not enough, said the report. They must be augmented by such modern escape foilers as "electronic proximity detectors" installed atop prison walls and "Geophone Vibration detectors" buried outside to pick up the first errant footfall. Another gadget that appealed to the committee would virtually turn every cell into a weighing machine rigged to set off an alarm when a prisoner's poundage is missing...
...PROFESSIONALS. The liveliest western dust-up since Shane stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan as four nail-hard professional gunmen hired at $10,000 apiece to find an errant wife (Claudia Cardinale) and return her to her husband...
...about how things are going in the land of Ho. When a shortcoming is publicized it is generally done in the way sins are cited in a revival meeting: to urge the faithful on to ever-greater exertions. Judging from some recent Red sermonizing, Saigon has no monopoly on errant human nature...