Word: straying
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...humans can take care of themselves. It's the helpless that she responds to." Her response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...
...long been standard practice to require women to wear bathing caps at communal swimming pools. Reason: stray long hairs tend to clog the filters. But what about the teen-age boys now sporting long tresses that cover their ears, if not their eyes? One firm that manages 100 pools in the Washington area has decided that the only fair and logical thing to do is to apply the rule without regard to sex, is now insisting that a boy with hair like a girl must wear a bathing cap like a girl...
Netted Lumpfish. There were seldom empty beds in Bjorn's household: vagrants and strays of all sorts wandered in and out. One such stray was Gardar Holm, who had the loudest voice in Reykjavik, and who accordingly was sent to Copenhagen to become a singer. Another was a woman from across the island who came to Bjorn's cottage to die because her own children "would never expect me to be so unkind as to die before their eyes...
Klopfer felt that he could not leave home for speaking engagements or a planned year's study in Germany. He could not even stray very far from the courthouse: Cooper would suddenly and temporarily call up the case, sending a squad car to haul Klopfer from the classroom to the courtroom. Klopfer demanded a trial, but North Carolina's top court rejected his request - putting him in Cooper's power indefinitely...
Blitman takes his faded green tray up to the front of the Bick. As a rule, the old people and adults don't stray far from the counter. The hoods, hippies, and students head, for the plate glass windows. But at some point. The young meet the old. That's the beauty of the Bick...