Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above the Law. The bishops chose not to attack the women directly but rather the errant colleagues who had ordained them: three retired or resigned U.S. bishops (the Rt. Revs. Robert L. De Witt, Daniel Corrigan and Edward R. Welles II) and the current bishop of Costa Rica, the Rt. Rev. J. Antonio Ramos, who participated in the ceremony only peripherally. One of the leaders of the attack was Bishop Harold B. Robinson of Western New York, who complained that the ordaining bishops' action was "a parallel to Nixon. These men have placed themselves above the law." Along with...
Driving down Main Street, one was forced to wonder just how many times the second officer had to fend off errant hands from passing windows. "Hey cutie," screamed one particularly obnoxious truck driver stopped in the traffic. But the patrolwoman must have been used to this sort of treatment, because as the truck driver went past she neatly sidestepped his searching hand. The other patrolman laughed and, as the patrolwoman turned her back, he flashed an okay sign to the truckdriver...
...alcoholics themselves. Similar studies by Goodwin of twins raised by different families seem to offer even stronger support for some genetic explanation. Most researchers are reluctant to accept such biological determinism as the sole cause, but many agree with Goodwin that there may very well be some errant gene that makes at least some alcoholics more vulnerable than the rest of humankind to the bottle...
...after striking out. Mackey's third strike was dropped by the hapless Clark catcher, who then threw wild to first, giving Mackey the base. Mackey then advanced to second on a wild pitch, scampered to third on another wild toss and finally came home on yet another errant throw from the pitching mound...
...while the fans might dwell on that bouncing puck that slipped between the goaltender's legs, the muffed shot or the errant clearing pass, Cleary and his kids can look back and remember a good season. As Cleary is fond of saying, "We accomplished an awful lot of things that other Harvard teams haven't done...