Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a cop for the same reasons he uses to persuade potential recruits. "The social potential of the policeman is incredible-self interest merges with public interest. If you dare to think about it," Durk says, "it's your last chance to be a knight errant...
...tripping, Kevin Pettit scored for Cornell on the power play. At 16:21, with his team shorthanded. Lodboa stole the puck from two Harvard players and scored on a breakaway. And at 18:12, seconds after the penalty had expired, Big Red center John Hughes grabbed an errant clearing pass at mid-ice, and tallied on still another breakaway. Ned Harkness. grinning broadly, sent out his fourth line. It scored 58 seconds later, and after two periods, it was 8-2. Bruce Durno had had only to make six saves. Two were on breakaways...
...magnificent anachronism" and America's most fearsome belligerent. The British, on the other hand, are all whining limeys whose vindictive leader, Field Marshal Montgomery, nourishes his ego on the bones of American troops. One can imagine an equally distorted British interpretation mounting Monty as a knight-errant and Patton as a gorilla...