Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, during the 1770s saints were scarcely visible and holiness was rare. Some good and heroic activities were performed by frail, errant and often irreligious people. Certainly, multitudes of decent folk led conventionally moral lives. But a second look at the past will be jolting to those who think that sexual waywardness and permissiveness are recent inventions. Public figures could keep mistresses and acknowledge their illegitimate children-as Benjamin Franklin did-without losing their good names or even their reputations as moralists. George Washington had to chase Philadelphia prostitutes from Valley Forge. In New York 500 "ladies of pleasure" kept...
John McCarthy salvaged a 7-7 halftime tie for the Crimson late in the second quarter. McCarthy intercepted a Dartmouth pass in the flat, picked up several key blockers, and coasted in on the wave of a scintallating 65-yard touchdown return of the errant toss...
...brassiere strap hung errant and anomalous." But these lapses are overwhelmed by the novel's bitterly comic vision: a world in which an eleven-year-old boy known as "JR" parlays a bid to supply the Army with 9,000 gross of wooden picnic forks into a multinational conglomerate. Barely literate, he works out of a telephone booth and gets his leads by subscribing to dozens of commercial magazines and catalogues...
Yale Coach Carmen Cozza just may have assigned George Allen's book on football as homework for his Bulldogs. Yale's defense forced three costly Colgate turnovers in the first half. Linebacker John Smoot recovered two fumbles and picked off an errant Red Raider pass to set up three Eli scores...
...saying there was "some kind of monastery or something" up the road a bit. The monastery turned out to be a seminary for Jesuit priests and when we rang the doorbell at 12:30 in the morning I was sure--visions of medieval churches offering sanctuary to knights errant--we'd found a place to stay. But the priest who answered the door said he would have to ask his boss--the priest in charge of the seminary. Bill didn't trust priests, but I told him that I grew up around priests and had been taught by priests...