Word: strayed
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...Twice a stray dog made its appearance on the field, once stopping the play. But everything seemed to have its redeeming features on Saturday, even the snow which might have been rain. This dog was a Dalmation, and what more aristocratic breed of dog could be desired to upset the Harvard-Yale classic...
Amid this tension, Japanese officers, who said they would like to attend last week the funeral of four British soldiers slain by stray shells fortnight ago, were refused permission by the British. Chinese officers were permitted to attend and a swarm of Chinese students dashed through Shanghai streets cheering and waving banners inscribed: "LONG LIVE OUR BRITISH FRIENDS...
Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...bewidered and bedraggled stray dogs were picked up by the wheel of fortune Saturday morning, and raised to notoriety for an hour...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...