Word: errantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what they do: the politician who spews platitudes at ethnic voters. The guy who patronizes women on the issue of sexual harassment. The big-city police chief who downplays his department's gang beating of an errant motorist. What don't these folks do? They don't "get it." Suddenly the phrase is everywhere, a shorthand K.O. punch that vaporizes opponents by skewering their lack of social intelligence. And for public figures it can be fatal. If you just don't get it, you're hopelessly out of touch...
Harvard's quickness led to an early first-half goal, which turned out to be the game-winner. Forward Becky Gaffney swooped down on an errant Providence pass at the Friars 25-yard line. She cruised toward the Providence net and beat the roving goalie, Gina Martiniello...
...flagrant misdeeds, Levine considers himself to have been "an insider-trading junkie" who simply could not stop. "I was addicted to the excitement, the sense of victory," he writes. "Some spouses use drugs, others have extramarital affairs. I secretly traded stocks." That may be true, but an errant spouse does not bring disrepute to an entire industry...
That happened in 1987, and the tide of petty American litigiousness has kept on rising to new, absurd heights. This is the age of the self-tort crybaby, to whom some disappointment -- a slur, the loss of a job, an errant spouse, a foul-tasting can of beer, a slip on the supermarket floor, an unbecoming face- lift -- is sufficient occasion to claim huge monetary awards...
...element iridium than ordinarily found in the earth's crust. It was this discovery that led Luis Alvarez to his momentous - insight. Comets and asteroids have high iridium content, he reasoned, and the clay layer could have been formed by the worldwide fallout of the material vaporized when an errant asteroid or, as most scientists now suspect, a giant comet smacked into the earth...