Word: straying
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...somehow found myself watching a group of Chicanos, apparently being supervised by white men and their pack of killer attack creatures. Rather than ruminate on the unpleasant moral implications, I started thinking how these undoubtedly underfed dogs would react to a stray trespasser...
...Picture, for example, a retired Army officer and his wife have settled into what seems to be a peaceful and stable routine. He dabbles at painting; she reads and turns out occasional book reviews. One rainy night, a stray cat drops through the skylight in the captain's studio and moves in with them, apparently for good. The next morning, seeing the animal in a bowl that forms part of a still life her husband has arranged, the wife says, "If you could paint that -- that would be a picture." The remark is not intended in entire innocence; it opens...
...Jacques de Larosiere, 56. The Frenchman announced two weeks ago that he would leave the fund at the end of the year for unspecified "personal and professional reasons." His successor is likely to be Dutch Finance Minister Onno Ruding or Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus; neither man would stray far from the IMF's new moderate path...
THIS SUMMER in South Africa a Black boy was standing in his room as the police were breaking up a crowd on the street below. A stray police rubber bullet broke through the window and hit the boy, bursting his eye and going into his brain...
Molly Ringwald, Brat Pactress. After all, she was on the cover of Time magazine months before Bok made it. Besides, she was Homecoming Queen, treasurer of her sophomore class, is really concerned about nuclear war and stray animals, and has really neat red hair. Can Bok say as much...