Word: straying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they are finally strong enough to stray from the clearing occasionally, Ranger James Wong and his staff carry them deep into the forest, abandoning them there along with a day's supply of food. But the orangs usually come scrambling home shortly after the food is gone. A few days later, Wong hauls them off again, and sometimes several wearying times after that, because the orangs stubbornly refuse to give up the easy living with their human friends...
Some of the conveniences of breast feeding are obvious. The milk is always at the right temperature, so there is no problem of heating bottles and worrying when they cool off. It is available at any hour of the day or night. It is always sterile-if there are stray germs around the nipples, they are almost certainly the ones to which the mother and therefore the baby already have antibodies...
Implacably tough and hard to pick off, the lice resemble real crabs. There the similarity ends. No longer or wider than one or two millimeters, they are usually invisible to the naked eye, and nestle most often in the pubic area (though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...
...pocket Paley Park (all necessarily shown in photographs only). Scholars of the 30th century may well conclude that, like the Greeks and Romans, urban Americans turned inward from their streets and sacrificed freely to the household gods, glorified their public squares and buildings, but left the ordinary thoroughfares to stray cats and garbage collectors...
...force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing a channel and taking the town of Oron. Federal MIG fighters, flown mostly by Egyptian and other mercenary pilots, rarely hit much of strategic value with their bombs; since they do not risk flying low enough to ensure accuracy, stray bombs at times land on hospitals and schools...