Word: errantly
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...bats had another sleepy afternoon, mostly because they couldn't find pitches to hit. Eddie Farrell clouted a long home run in the ninth, knocking in Mark Bingham who had slammed a ground-rule double moments before, but otherwise the Crimson could only slap six singles off errant moundsmen Carl Nowiszcwski, Mark Dewitt and Al Fordiari...
Watching the plays that just didn't click, the leads that were agonizingly frittered away, the errant passes and shots, you could hear the post-mortems even as the patient lapsed into a coma. The 5-3 loss at Princeton, when Harvard aimed (or misaimed) nearly 50 shots on goal. The blown 3-0 Beanpot advantage over B.C. The see-saw battles in New Haven and Hanover...
...ERRANT IN their path, blinded by the realization that Jimmy Carter is God's personal representative on earth, the authors indulge in baths of high-school psychology. From his childhood in Georgia, little Jimmy carries the entire burden of Southern history to Annapolis, where he grits his teeth for three years. Laboring under the shadow of his father, Carter develops the win-or-die attitude of the killer politician. Crushed by his failure to win the governor's seat the first time around, Carter goes off to find himself, "a star pupil in the self-improvement school...
...course, Hugh is the champion that they are waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn...
...Eagles' game-long full court trap press did little to bother the Crimson. But without a hot hand from the outside, Harvard could not penetrate the zone of the much taller B.C. squad, and the Crimson watched its errant aerials fall into the waiting arms of Eagle rebounders...