Word: strayed
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Comfortably curled up on Mickey's couch, contentedly licking herself, lay a beautiful black cat and five kittens to whom she had just given birth. Dismayed at finding this abandoned, fatherless family in his abode, Rooney at once suspected Franco W. Peabody, 3rd '46, notorious for picking up stray cats, and accused him of the blackguardly deed...
Although he has been greeted only by batterymen and a few stray others who have dropped down to Briggs Cage to limber up, Varsity baseball Coach Floyd Stahl has begun the task of shaping up a nine for the approaching season...
...never can tell when a stray Jap will be driving around the Yard at three in the morning, so it was perfectly understandable when the Navy guard stopped a car touring past the dorms at that unseamanly hour. He accosted the man: "Halt. Who goes there...
Gist of the Hall sermons: pray, drive the devil out, live right, read the Bible. Pastor Hall never asks for donations, but he gets enough for rent, food, rummage-sale clothes and stray dollars to give away "if the person seems worthy." When he tires, three elderly women spell him, but the Pastor is apt to preach from early morning to midnight. Says he: "My only worry is that I'm so happy I hate to go to bed at night...
...various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...