Word: errants
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...grand ideal of U.S. juvenile courts is that errant children are best handled by informal "civil" proceedings rather than stigmatized by criminal trials. In theory, youngsters cannot be accused or convicted of adult crimes. When adjudged delinquent, they may be put on probation and doctored by social workers, or sent to training schools for "rehabilitation"-all supposedly in their own best interests. In fact, the ideal is now under heavy fire...
...excess baggage of war has always included women. Strumpets trailed the trumpets of Joshua at Jericho and marched with the legions of Rome. Sir Gawaine was not the only knight-errant; in one year alone, the Crusaders counted the aid of 13,000 camp followers in their quest for the Holy Sepulcher. In World War I, they were the vivandieres; in Saigon today, the B-girls are called tea girls. Wherever two or three soldiers gather together, prostitutes are sure to flock, adding to the disorder that follows in the wake of armies everywhere...
...press notices in a game much more one-sided than the score indicates. Harvard's attackmen and saidfielders beat the M.I.T. defensemen to every free ball. Only the brilliant goaltending of the losers' Bob MacDonald kept the score close. Sophomore Marty Cain started the scoring as he took an errant M.I.T. pass and walked right through the defense. The Engineers tied it up a minute later, but Jan Bollinger's straight-on shot from in on Ted Leary's pass gave the Crimson a 2-1 edge at the end of the first period...
...comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift to another channel could require a readjustment. Given the errant ways of all flesh, a listener who wants realistic color can hardly afford to take his hands off the controls...
...characteristics. They may slur words as in "sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...