Word: strayed
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...lecture at Negro colleges for short periods, or even to spend a term in residence. And departments might try to channel some of their graduate students into teaching jobs at these institutions, as they have done for other small colleges. Surely universities produce some Ph.D.'s willing to stray off the road to tenure for a few years to take advantage of such a unique teaching opportunity...
...spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood of the doves, hoping for a stray hit. Whole boxes of shells can be fired without ruffling a feather...
This time Bob Hope, 59, is on location as a Bob-nosed U.N. employee with a stray baby on his hands. Wouldn't it be great, hoped Hope, if U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 63, could be persuaded to do a quick walk-on? "I don't know if I'm dressed properly," laughed Stevenson, but soon he was outside mugging through a long double take as he passed Hope in the plaza. After two takes, Stevenson had the bit clown so pat that the camera crew burst into applause. "Hey," called the upstaged comic, "that...
...evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze...
...democracy in elections this June 23. And through it all, Argentina's 20 million citizens, inured to chaos and bored with it, went about their business, window-shopping in thronged Calle Florida, horseback riding in Palermo Park, or sitting in coffeehouses, hoping not to get hit by the stray bullets zinging around...