Word: stray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though you may have come to Cambridge resigned to spend the summer studying unthrilling subjects like accounting or the British novel, a stray glance or two may tempt you towards a more ecletic offering. After all, some mundane classes are offered year after year, but this may be your only chance to take, say, Engl S-193, "New York and the American Imagination...
...mystery. One theory ascribes it to "retrograde menstruation." Instead of flowing down through the cervix and vagina, some menstrual blood and tissue back up through the Fallopian tubes and spill out into the pelvic cavity (see chart). Normally this errant flow is harmlessly absorbed, but in some cases the stray tissue may implant itself outside the uterus and continue to grow. A second theory suggests that the disease arises from misplaced embryonic cells that have lain scattered around the abdominal cavity since birth. When the monthly hormonal cycles begin at puberty, says Dr. Howard Judd, director of gynecological endocrinology...
...booing Bob Stanley is one thing. After all, when he pitches, it's double jeopardy for Sox faithful: opposing hitters have a field day with his stuff; and there's nobody left in the bullpen to smash stray beach balls mercilessly with the pitchers' mound rake...
While some of the council rounded up stray reps, a half dozen ventured into Harvard Square, searching for something far more important than parliamentary legitimacy: an ice cream parlor with a short line. To no avail. Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, Baskin Robbin's, and Brigham's all had mile-long queues. And by the time the bunch arrived at Store 24, there were only four minutes remaining in the recess, so the group returned to Emerson 105 empty-handed and out of breath...
...tutors start out working through homework problems with the prisoner, but it's not unusual for the subject to stray from the Pythagorean theorem to something else, says Tina Vanasse '88, leader of the Billerica tutoring group. "Some prisoners are nervous at first. They don't swear and they're real careful about what they say," says Vanasse, a volunteer at Billerica since her freshman year...