Word: stray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape...
Through all this move the grisly minor characters of Faulkner's theater. The druggist is running a dirty-picture seance. Bad niggers chase good niggers with carving knives, fall together into the same ditch and talk philosophy. Four grotesque little Indians (the offspring of a stray Snopes and an Apache woman) turn up out of nowhere, settle down in a cave and very nearly burn alive a citizen who tries to civilize them...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...
Moreover, for the first time this year, the Crimson came up against a team that was a little faster than it was. The Wolverine linemen that were left were all extremely fast and often beat the varsity defensemen to a stray puck in the Crimson zone...
...Help Me ... In Dorchester, England, charged with obstructing traffic by letting eleven sheep stray onto the highway, Thomas Horsington objected: "In all humility, the Lord Almighty made the heaven and earth; and even He had sheep that strayed," was fined $2.80 anyway...