Word: errantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his sangfroid and Swiss-watch timing, Carson brought a temperate temperature to Tonight after the Paar boil. But he did more: in his nightly monologue he helped set the nation's political and social agenda. When Johnny made jokes about Vietnam, Watergate, errant Senators or TV evangelists, he enabled the audience to laugh the problem away. "Nobody can figure out Johnny's politics," Leno says. "The joke comes first." The trouble is that Carson's monologues have stayed hip, while his studio audiences have grown duller, less attuned to the issues he makes fun of. The star now gets...
Technology is not fail-safe. Sooner or later a hospital, a school or an apartment block will be reduced to flesh and rubble by an errant U.S. bombing mission. How will I and the nation react to pictures of, say, an Iraqi woman, her clothes on fire, running, stumbling, screaming at the injustice of her fate? Intellectually, I will accept responsibility, for the saturation bombing of Iraq is part of a wrenching decision that my country made openly and democratically with my full complicity. But can I steel my emotions? A ground war in Kuwait will only be worse...
...worry, Miner came through one minutelater, stealing an errant Harvard pass and drivingin for a 360-degree, "This is How It's Done,"razzle-dazzle slam-a-rooski...
Rullman then clinched the game with the "littlethings." Harvard sophomore Matt McClain pulled upfor a short jumper and found nothing but air. Butbefore any of the 1710 boisterous Big Greensupporters could open their mouths to yell,"Airball," Rullman slid in under the net andtipped the errant shot high off the backboard andinto the net as Dartmouth Co-Captain BrendanO'Sullivan shoved him in the back. Rullman'ssubsequent free throw gave the Crimson a 62-59lead...
Protoporphyria victims suffer from a defectiveenzyme, which causes the protoporphyrin moleculeto seep into the subject's skin rather thanincoporating itself into the oxygen-carryinghemoglobin in the bloodstream, where it belongs.At the body's surface, the errant molecule reactswith oxygen in the air, causing severe itching andburning...