Word: errantly
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...threatens to run off with the beautiful wife of one of his clients, however, Justine takes action. She does not scream, shout or cry, this woman of Roman virtue; that would send him flying. Instead she talks to the other husband; they agree not only to offer their errant spouses their freedom, but to give them allowances as well (in Auchincloss's world it is often the women who have the money). "Our job," says Justine, "is to strip their fantasy of its glamour. The first thing to remove is its illegality. They must feel free to marry...
...They were, in part, his own fault. An obsessive reviser, Joyce scrawled some 100,000 additional words in the margins of galleys as they were sent to him for proofreading. These changes had to be incorporated into what was al ready becoming a palimpsest of confusion: diverse typists' errant renderings of various stages of Joyce's manuscript, compounded by a team of French-speaking printers who were being hectored by the author to get the finished product into his hands on the occasion of his 40th birthday...
That office, where the three Israelis worked as low-ranking security employees, is a quasi-diplomatic Israeli delegation and intelligence-gathering center located in the Christian-held area just north of Beirut. The errant Israeli trio gave the Syrians a long-awaited pretext for drawing widespread attention to the unofficial office and for contending anew that the delegation is, in fact, a conduit for the shipment of arms and ammunition to Christian militiamen in Lebanon...
...unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
Bergmann and Company had just killed a 30-second holding penalty when an errant pass during the clear landed in a Pioneer's pocket and resulted in a 4-on-3 last break Three quick passes later Pete Sanders had put Post ahead 11-10 with three minutes remaining...