Word: stray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck precedes the harriers around the tricky layout. It acts as a sort of beacon to those who might stray of on a wrong bridge or road. No one got lost yesterday, but such occurrences are not unheard...
...give the manufacturer a break, because of the chance that stray virus in the air of his labs may give him a false positive test, he need not throw away a batch of finished vaccine after a single unfavorable test. He can have it tested in other labs, and if two successive tests are favorable, submit the batch for U.S. approval...
...appears that a vaccine can pass rigorous tests and still not be safe for human beings; it seems possible that the arm muscle of the young human animal is the most sensitive of all testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though a vaccine containing only a few stray particles of active virus-which might do no harm to a monkey or great ape when injected into the brain or spinal cord-may touch off paralytic disease when injected into a child...
Humming through Georgia one night in his brand-new Oldsmobile, Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, on his way home from a rousing speech to some farmers, ran into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that...
...Kerensky, then 35, skittishly mistaking a few stray shots in the courtyard outside his palace office for the beginning of a counterrevolution, leaps to the windowsill and bellows hoarsely: "Stations everyone! . . . Listen to me-I, Kerensky, am speaking to you, Kerensky is speaking to you! Defend your freedom and the revolution . . . Stations everyone...