Word: errantly
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...headed over Mexico to ward the end of its first orbit. The ship's OAMS fuel supply had gone from 410 Ibs. to 228 Ibs. in the hide-and-seek game with the booster. Director Kraft told McDivitt to take it easy on the fuel in chasing the errant booster. The astronaut replied: "It's out farther than we expected." A little later he asked Houston, "Do you want a major effort to close with this thing or save the fuel?" The instant answer: save the fuel and forget about the booster. Resigned, McDivitt said, "I guess...
Newley's cry, clown, cry songs provide errant moments of appeal, most notably a tuneful lament called Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me). A floppy band of little girls clad like the urchins in Oliver! scamper about the ramplike setting to create illusions of dance numbers. One grownup girl (Joyce Jillson) lusciously blessed with beauty distracts the playgoer briefly from the show's glacial pace and Sir's ultimate comedownance...
...well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford a lawyer. Most British courts, though not all, offer the same aid to accused Americans. Convicted aliens are commonly sentenced to buy a one-way ticket home. So easy is Britain on errant Americans that arrested Britons have been known to claim U.S. citizenship...
...boss of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But Washington Columnist Joseph Kraft rises to the defense with a thoughtfully reasoned brief. "To critics, Mr. Hoover is the advance guard of the police state," says Kraft in Commentary's February issue. "To boosters, he is the modern knight errant. For better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life." To Kraft, who sees him in somewhat sharper focus, "Hoover is in the most literal sense the 'G-Man'-the Government man par excellence. He is the supreme example of the successful civil servant...
...usual, Harvard's main difficulty came in clearing the puck from their own zone. Time and time again an errant pass would be picked off by a Colby defender, and the Crimson would have to scramble into a defensive set-up in order to prevent a goal...