Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more widely accepted version: that he got hit by a stray bullet fired by one side or the other during the Cuban invasion...
...return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
Curt LeMay is not much of a hand for chitchat. When his aides, in reporting, begin to stray from the subject at hand, Curt is certainly curt: "Stop, you're talking nonsense." Recently subjected to an interview by a Washington pundit who seemed more anxious to make speeches than to ask questions, LeMay interrupted: "If you know all the damned answers, then what are you doing here?" LeMay is as hard-boiled a disciplinarian as exists in the high command of the U.S. armed forces. But he is renowned for backing his men when they make understandable mistakes...
...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
...Maury Maverick Jr., 40, son of the late rip-roaring New Deal Congressman, grandson of the rancher who let his cattle run unbranded (and thus made his name a world-known synonym for "stray"), has the support of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which means that he will probably get the maverick vote and little else. Warns Maverick: "If I don't get a lot of votes, we may not have another man willing to run this liberal in Texas for another ten years...