Word: errantly
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...ration Internationale des Echecs, the governing body of world chess, he stormed into retirement to "plot my revenge." Then, 18 months later, he suddenly stormed right back with a "new sense of mission," entered the championship play-offs and demolished one grand master after another. Now the knight-errant of the royal game, rated a solid 5-to-2 favorite by British bookmakers, has at last won his audience with the king...
...news from the Jensen living room. The weather report originated from the kitchen area, and the sports from the dining room between mouthfuls of garbanzos and over the noise of firecrackers being set off outside by envious neighbors. Said Commentator Ralph Story, taking an oblique crack at the errant aim of newspaper delivery boys: "It's a pleasure to deliver the news right to the Jensens' door, instead of in the bushes where they usually receive...
Whatever the cause of Garner Ted's disappearance, his father smilingly insisted last week that the errant lad was in Colorado, making the best of his exile. If so, he was not at a favorite retreat on a former sheep ranch near Oak Creek. When Correspondent Burton trekked out to the ranch, she found it deserted, with its electric meter padlocked. It had not been used all winter...
...have seen her, offstage as well as on, are likely to disagree. When an errant pigeon flew in her apartment window, what could she do but ask, "Any messages?" When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled hot soup down her neck, her retort was, of course, "Never darken my Dior again." Miss Lillie, in fact, has long since passed into a sort of performers' nirvana and become a model for zany aunts and dowagers. She was, the various authors have told her, the inspiration for Mary Poppins, Auntie Mame and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit...
...named because Chairman Mao issued instructions on May 7, 1966, that the Chinese army must "be a great school." China also has May 7 schools, at which errant party members engage in ideological self-criticism and reindoctrination, combined with manual labor...