Word: forayed
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...This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does not so obviously develop under the eye of God and the sinners do not even know that they need a salvation, but they go through the moral wringer just the same, and pay in some way for every foray against human conscience...
...French were in less of a hurry to gratify it. French diolomats blamed the stampede to the summit on an appeasement of British Labor, and thought it bad to base Western policy on an opposition that holds no responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East...
...long foray into Yankee territory to make friends and whoop up "Mississippi Recognition Month," that state's personable Democratic Governor James Plemon Coleman (TIME, March 4. 1957) stopped off in Manhattan to honor nine Mississippians who have made good north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Among the former Magnolia Staters appointed honorary colonels and aides-de-camp to Coleman's staff: the New York Times's Managing Editor Turner Catledge, Musicomedy Director (Jamaica) and Composer Lehman Engel, and the littlest colonel, ten-year-old Eddie Hodges, carrot-topped standout in the new Broadway hit musical The Music...
...cultivating his backyard (with an occasional foray into Pennsylvania), Schaus has created an anomaly in big-time college basketball: a home-grown team. North Carolina combs the New York subway circuit for its players, and Kansas stretched out to Philadelphia for Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. But Schaus finds his stars in towns like East Bank (pop. 1,500) and Shinnston (pop. 2,793). As a result, the state rightly looks on the team as its own, not a high-priced import, follows its games with chauvinistic zeal...
...giggling. When a tribesman looked into such a hut, he saw no cause for merriment. The laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death, a creeping horror hitherto unknown to medicine...