Word: errantly
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...most exciting thing about watching the Harvard varsity baseball squad stomp MIT yesterday was betting on whether the errant fly balls would smash the wind-shields of cars passing along the first base line...
...wildest fantasies. The basic idea sounds simple-unstable heavy atoms, like those of uranium 235, break up (fission). Scattered in all directions are electrically neutral particles called neutrons as well as fission products such as shortlived radioactive xenon, krypton and iodine. The neutrons hit still other atoms like errant billiard balls in a chain reaction that produces heat. But obtaining useful energy from this process can be extremely complex. Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant has two pressurized water reactors. Such reactors are based on a design pioneered for nuclear submarines by the redoubtable Admiral Hyman Rickover...
...look in the closet for your glove. Down past the ice skates and the loose checkers, past an errant bathrobe sash and those hush puppies that you hate but have to wear to assembly, past a $100 Monopoly bill, past the "What God Looks Like?" drawings you made for Sunday School, and aaahhhh, there...
...Gilroy's dialogue is not very funny, and character development depends entirely on the acting and camera work since the script does not offer any. We learn nothing of the Hunnicutt character, for instance, except that she is sophisticated and looks fine in percale. And although the errant husband played by Rogers telephones hearty lies back to America each evening, nothing is established about his betrayed wife. Is she dull, interesting, ugly, beautiful, loyal, faithless, a drudge, a scholar, a rock guitarist? To know these things would be to know much more about her husband, and a line...
THOUGHTS ARE ERRANT during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...