Word: straying
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...alien spacecraft that exploded while trying to land on earth. A hit by a stray bit of antimatter, or a speeding mini-black hole, or the head of a comet. These are some of the fanciful theories offered over the years to explain the fireball in the sky and the giant explosion that devastated a remote region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, leveling trees for miles around, knocking over huts, stampeding reindeer and creating an enormous shock wave detected around the world...
...defensive side, an occasional lapse in backchecking sometimes permitted a stray goal or two; and despite a very impressive first-year-on-skates performance by goalie Katie Williams, her inexperience showed when opponents caught her off guard on rebound attempts...
While some families poked around in dresser drawers and jewelry cases for gold cufflinks and earrings, others rummaged through attics and closets in search of long forgotten sterling silver tea sets, candlesticks, or perhaps just a stray silver ashtray. Gold and silver fever is spreading to ordinary folks, and many were lining up at coin and jewelry shops to seE their little treasures for quick cash...
...they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects...
...social life. Gossip rains down like radioactive dust. Status symbols are precise and demanding, though in Los Alamos as in places like Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed by a father who never had a stray thought, uncertainty or doubt," explains Father Ronald L. Bruckner, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church. "These are self-made men who, if they had a doubt, also had a standard deviation formula to solve...