Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...
...both groups, simple-souled, common-sensical Joe Lockman is a freak-"a stray bird of the cormorant capitalist species" who has somehow blundered into their nest. Similarly, to Joe, both purists and realists are crazy products of a U.S. he has never known...
...were driving along the mountain road on which Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the Philippines' first President, was assassinated by the Communist-led Huks* last spring. For miles the road was deserted. Stray pieces of rotting cloth and bullet-ridden luggage still mark the site of the ambush. Soldiers for our party, clutching their carbines, fanned out to survey the scene; one flushed a parrot from a high fern. "I knew three of the dead," said their lieutenant, and idly fired four rounds of ammunition at a towering lawan tree. "In memory of Mrs. Quezon and my three friends...
...disaster; he hurled the Germans back six times before the crumbling line on his left flank forced the French command to order his retreat. He retreated fighting. Yet he found time to analyze the causes of the French defeat and to apply the lessons in practice. By picking up stray trucks and equipment wherever he could, he managed to reorganize his units into some semblance of a motorized division with greatly strengthened fire power...
Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...