Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Darn Cat. Come December, Walt Disney can be relied upon to deliver a big, bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade. Sometimes it is a stray animal epic, sometimes a folksy romantic comedy, sometimes a wholesome teen-age adventure. This year it is all three, wrapped around the substantial screen presence of Hayley Mills, who goes gumshoeing on the trail of a criminal tomcat while her sister (Dorothy Provine) scrutinizes FBI Agent Dean Jones. Hayley nips through her role as though English accents were an absolute must among subdebs of Southern California, and Scrooge himself might unbend when...
Having effectively sterilized Voyager, scientists will take no chances on the spacecraft's becoming recontaminated by stray microorganisms as it rockets upward through the earth's atmosphere. The spacecraft will still be in its sealed canister when it is mounted on its launching rocket and blasted aloft. Only when it reaches deep into sterile space will explosive bolts be fired to release the life-free Voyager from its protective envelope and allow it to proceed toward its rendezvous with Mars...
Whirled Asunder. Schlesinger excels at providing the illuminating stray quote or the odd fact that firmly fixes a character in the reader's mind. Here is Kennedy about to appoint Harriman to an ambassadorial post but first sending a trusted friend over to make sure that the old pro promised to get himself a hearing aid. Here is Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turning from a discussion of Red China as the real menace to the West to the question of a new NATO commander, and saying breezily to Kennedy: "I suppose it should be a Russian...
...switch, can be blown twice. For Sonuswitch is trained to respond only to 14-kilocycle signals that occur twice in the space of half a second. A constant signal will not do it, and the company, which is primarily an acoustical research and development firm, claims that few stray sounds will accidentally trigger...
...face. And no more for the Pope than for other men will blustery winds die down at will. Time and again the Pope had to clutch desperately at his white zucchetto (skullcap) to keep it from sailing off into the air. During his farewell speech at Kennedy Airport, a stray gust whipped Paul's cloak over his head and face-and for an incongruous, hilarious split second, the spiritual leader of 584 million Roman Catholics looked like nothing so much as a grownup playing peekaboo with the children...