Word: errantly
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...soothingly, the accidental launch could never have occurred; safety procedures for nuclear-armed missiles are much more complex. Happily, St. Croix has no early warning system to alert it to a missile attack, and presumably no second-strike capability if it thinks it is being attacked. What if the errant missile had been fired across, say, the Soviet border? The Pentagon trusts no missile would ever be so unguided...
...issue was the Bible and how it shall be taught. A Southern Baptist president has one notable power: indirect control over nominations to boards that run the six Southern Baptist seminaries. Smith, like his predecessor, is a scriptural hard-liner who believes the Bible is "in-errant," free of errors in all matters spiritual and historical. Inerrantists believe, for example, that a whale actually swallowed Jonah and that Adam and Eve were individuals, not symbols. That is the faith of most grass-roots Southern Baptists but not necessarily of the seminary professors, many of whom interpret the Bible somewhat less...
...Early Days, Richardson plays Sir Richard Kitchen, a cantankerous imp bobbing and weaving his way through errant mists of memory. From moment to moment, Storey's play is both allusive and elusive - rather like hearing a few bars of music that suddenly break off and then later recur with a disconcertingly poignant resonance. Or like observing an ancient marble statue where the missing arm, leg or head must be pieced together by the viewer's imagination...
...defensive miscue in front of the Harvard goal with only five minutes left in the half gave James Madison its sole goal of the first stanza, Jenny Eisenberg scooped up an errant groundball and beat goalkeeper Charlotte Worsley, who had an otherwise superb game, turning away 12 of the Duchesses' 16 attempts...
First pitcher to fracture a rib while watching a runner steal second base-Craig Swan of the New York Mets, struck in the back by Catcher Ron Hodges' errant throw, a feat reminiscent of Casey Stengel's original Amazin' Mets...