Word: errants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work and the demands of personal and professional survival, he labors not to change a world or any corner of it, but to preserve something of his own integrity and decency. Lew Archer is a natural successor to Hammett's jaded Continental Op and Chandler's cynical knight-errant, Philip Marlowe, but his problems and solutions are far closer to us and the business of living...
...long pass play from Ric Zimmerman to Gary Strandemo, good for 72 yards and a TD early in the third quarter, was the fifth longest in University sports annals, and Ken Thomas's 91-yard run after picking off an errant Columbia pass in the final period was the third best run with an interception in Harvard history...
...recreation room of his $35,000 split-level home in a white section of New Rochelle, just north of New York City. For transportation he rides a commuter train through Harlem to his midtown Manhattan office, along with white suburbanites. Yet he has more of the knight errant in him than merely the song. On the night of June 22, after New York police disclosed a plot by the Revolutionary Action Movement to murder Young and other Negro leaders, he paid a late visit to Harlem to see for himself how he stood in the ghetto, where Martin Luther King...
When the carrier is at fault-as when a clerk slaps a Carson City ticket on a bag headed for Chicago-the errant luggage is pursued relentlessly. When it can finally be established that a piece is lost, financial settlement is made. Naturally, people try to pull a fast one once in a while. A man arrives at the airport, does not feel like waiting around for a few minutes to claim his luggage, and then complains to the airline from his hotel. Right or wrong, he gets his bag custom-delivered to his room...
There could be no complaints about sentimentality in the case of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. The original lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia, it has become the confession of a masochist: "These boots trample on everything beautiful/I live alone thanks to these boots/With these boots I stamp our love/They are taking their own revenge/I am stamping on my own happiness...