Word: straying
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...narrator kept the stray bits of Greek, Chinese, Persian, Nietzscheian, Freudian, and existentialist philosophy together, and still appeared on the screen long enough to keep the picture together...
Except for a few stray noises about expansion and some letters from football-minded graduates, the Corporation has scarcely heard of these problems in connection with the University. Through a rigid policy of keeping athletics in its proper place, the University has allowed itself the relative pleasure of concentrating on bolts and girders instead of crowds and gate receipts...
Mother Betsy, a soft touch for stray dogs and unwanted children, is always willing to rebalance the family budget to make room for one more. Grant, a city engineer on a fixed income ("And they fixed it good"), is almost as vulnerable, though he colors his generosity with the wry protests of an amiable fall-guy trapped in a family he never made...
...Spain's sleepy provincial town of Reus, Judge Alfredo Fournier has spent most of his 15 years on the bench settling peasants' disputes over stray pigs. Last week, nervous Judge Fournier had a much bigger job; he auctioned off the $56 million Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd., which controls Spain's biggest public utility. As everyone expected, it went to crafty old Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler who has become Spain's biggest businessman...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...