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Word: errants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUTUMN IS dying hard in Cambridge; already there is January in the air. But for now, the Yard fills up with students walking back and forth in an endless minuet of form to library to class, stopping perhaps to sail back an errant frisbee. It is hard to get very concerned about anything in such an idyllic setting; contradictions are not so apparent. There are other streets in Cambridge that are not so pretty, and they are only blocks away. But then, Cambridge is a town full of contradictions. It is a city that contains a colony of the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Che in Cambridge | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

With 13:30 gone in the opening stanza, UConn's Capitani collected an errant Seidler clearing pass and sent it to her teammate June Longo, who had broken in behind the usually superb Crimson netminder and had little difficulty pumping the ball a few feet into the empty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather, UConn Douse Crimson Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Fountain makers have found that unlike many Europeans who do not seem to mind getting slightly wet in the vicinity of fountains, American passers-by are not amused by an errant drenching from a wind-blown water jet. Some are even inclined to call the police. Many new fountains, therefore, are designed to be windproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Shaping Water into Art | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...their toughest challenges. Once again they had discovered that terrified witnesses rarely provide reliable descriptions. The series of sketches drawn by police artists from such fragmentary impressions turned out to be off the mark -actually hindering police work by inviting people to name suspects bearing likenesses to the errant drawings, but not to the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Joy of Deprogramming Sport | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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