Word: strayed
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There are some plays that a reviewer would rather feed than judge. Like stray kittens, they rub up against you in an imploring, hard-to-resist way and make friendly little noises. They are so thin that one yearns to put flesh on the bones of their plots, give them vitamin-rich lines to chew, and nourish their characters and situations...
...also directed the rescue of over 9000 stray animals threatened by a new hydroelectric dam on the East River. Also author of Time is Short and The Water Rises...
...forsook Uncle Hubert, because they got ambushed by Julian magic. One minute, there was magnolias, and then, suddenly, they were FMBC and, while Frank Mankiewicz was putting them down on the plus side of his delegate list, Julian Bond was strolling off on gilded splinters to ju-ju another stray...
These ills did not originate with the XX Olympiad. Since the Games were revived in 1896, they have too often been used for purposes that stray far from their professed ideal. Adolf Hitler made the 1936 Berlin Games a platform for virulent Nazi propaganda; in 1952 the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. began turning the Olympics into a cold war theater. Since then even the referees, who can do a lot of subjective mischief in judgment events like boxing, have often been chosen more for their ideological loyalty than for their skill. As proved by Munich 1972, the Games have become...
...poltergeist had suddenly gone on a global rampage. At higher latitudes, large glowing streaks and patches of light appeared in the nighttime sky. Short-wave radio communications were disrupted, compass needles danced dizzily back and forth, and utilities braced for stray surges of current that could knock out their power lines. Even the navigational ability of pigeons was believed to be temporarily impaired. These strange doings were not the work of an earthly ghost, but had their source in very real events occurring some 93 million miles away. With no forewarning, the sun underwent a series of violent eruptions that...