Word: straying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep of the Ben Cat area fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 24) was canceled on the outside chance that some stray bombs might hit uninvolved villages. And in an area west of Saigon, undirected artillery fire was banned-because civilians, despite orders to stay out, persisted in moving into the area...
...Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...
HIGH INFIDELITY. The perils of extra-marital dalliance are polished off ever so lightly in a four-part Italian comedy dominated by a jealous but accessible wife (Monica Vitti), a discreet businessman (Nino Manfredi) and other stray mates...
...Johnsbury, Vt., population 6,809, could be the archetypal New England mill town. Except for city cousins and stray tourists, the prim stillness beneath the elms is rarely disturbed by outsiders. The world-and even St. Johnsbury itself-seems unaware that the brooding, red brick building across from the courthouse is the U.S.'s oldest unaltered art gallery still standing.* Founded in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum grew out of the 19th century fashion for industrial tycoons to dabble in the arts. Horace Fairbanks, whose uncle invented the platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks...
alone except for a stray in the other corner...