Word: errants
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Combine Duke's skill, Harvard's determination and my diminished eyesight, and you've got the perfect ballgame. The sleek and the valiant stood out, while the errant passes and air-balled hook shots could be overlooked mercifully...
This conviction arises not from any air of promise about them but from their total lack of it. Norman and his charges are such stuff as Rocky Balboa and the Karate Kid are made of -- not to mention old Frank Capra movies. The coach is a Knight-errant, a good man with a blemish on his record that only redemptive labors can expunge. The players are few in number and woefully lacking in any natural gift for the game. Worse, Hickory's only talented hoopster has quit the squad, and the townsfolk do not care for Norman's outsider independence...
...misconduct by a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ellis Reinherz at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has lent a kind of scientific confirmation to the occurrence of fraud at Harvard. The professional misbehavior has been independently repeated, gaining the same criterion of reliability that the errant scientists' research could...
...Crimson got off to an inauspicious start, when an errant Mark Benning pass deep in the Harvard zone found Bulldog Bob Alexander all alone in the slot. Alexander beat Crimson netminder Dickie McEvoy, and UMD was ahead just 2:06 into the contest...
FATE, CRUEL AND derisive, always seems to trap the errant. In the fiction of Nabokov, this fate is the will of the author who is empowered by his art to create his characters and coolly plan out their destinies. He operates them like marionettes, then drops their strings and watches them collapse. Thus he deals with the enchanter...