Word: strayed
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...Nevelson did not want to make her totems from steel-"it was too mechanical for me"-and so she resorted to wood, the stuff of her childhood in Maine. She began collecting stray bits and pieces from the street, from junkyards, from antique shops: scroll-sawed offcuts, bits of molding, battered planks and ribs of crates, balusters, toilet seats, sheets of split veneer, gun-stocks, dowels, finials, anything that seemed to have some character. The amassing of these things was an act of love and salvage. "I feel that what people call by the word scavenger is really a resurrection...
...gates. The culprit might then transfer money to his own account, steal private information or sabotage the system itself. Other colorfully named ploys: superzapping (penetrating a computer by activating its own emergency master program, an act comparable to opening a door with a stolen master key); scavenging (searching through stray data or "garbage" for clues that might unlock still other secrets); and piggybacking (riding into a system behind a legitimate user...
...realization that she had been manipulated, just like all the victims, into trusting this man. And finally, her crystallized feeling of Bundy's guilt seems not to come from her careful crime-reporter's examination of the evidence but rather from somewhere within herself: a dream; the stray threads of what she knew about Bundy's life; and her sudden, violent reaction to the photos from the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University where Bundy had ravaged five sleeping students in a maniacal, club-swinging frenzy...
Getting the ball at mid-field after Eli linebacker Doug Carrns picked off a stray pass, Yale drove 50 yards in 5 plays to take a 20-7 lead. Harvard successfully blocked the extra point attempt but was called offsides. When the ball was moved half the distance to the endzone on the penalty, Yale decided to go for two but had their pass batted down...
...midst of trying to round up final stray votes on the campaign trail, Jimmy Carter last week took time out to nominate Bank of America President A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 57, to succeed Robert S. McNamara, 64, as president of the World Bank. The White House made the announcement now in order to head off growing sentiment among the 138 nations making up the World Bank that it was time for a non-American to head the organization. Ever since the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were jointly founded in 1944, the bank has been headed...