Word: straying
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...These dogs are just stray animals that nobody wants and would be put to death by the pound anyway," said Barger, who played an important role in the law's passage in 1956. More than 250,000 dogs are destroyed by the state each year, so doctors use only about one percent for research, he added...
...watching the house, he could be cleaning it. "As soon as we get an arm on him, vacuuming will be easy," says Bushnell. Eventually, he hopes, "BOB will be programmed to fetch things-get the paper, pick up after its master, put loose socks in the hamper and stray shoes in the closet...
...least in the studio the tendency to stray was checked. On stage at. The Rat Saturday, the group often appeared to have lost control. The opener was Neil Young's "Mr. Soul," an amplified treat that excited the audience. "When You Smile" followed, so honestly sung that the lyrics. "Well it seems like the end of the world when you smile," gained credibility they never had on record, and "Definitely Clean," featured catchy playing and an engaging beat. Pushing towards the stage, people began to jump about and dance. Then the performance fell apart...
That Championship Season itself was a successful play several years ago, staged by Joseph Papp. To its credit, the movie avoids the temptation to stray from the play's focal points. For the most part, the film takes place in the coach's large, wooden house, whose dark paneling, airy rooms and surrounding porch recall O'Neill's description of the Tyrones' house in Journey. And while O'Neill's Mary suffers partly because she has never had a real home, the men in That Championship Season suffer because they realize they have lost their home: the basketball court where...
...closing time proper, the library noises had subsided to occasional clicks and footsteps as guards walked through the corridors snapping off stray lights. At 10:21, all the overhead lights went off at once--evidently, to Jack and Jill's relief, controlled by a central switch. No one had come within two bookcases of them...