Word: straying
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Girls Eat Stray Food...
...best policy for the United States now is to do nothing and await the day when China will stray back into the fold, Reischauer claimed. The United States has lost its prestige with the Chinese people, who realize that Communism is the most efficient method to achieve a strong nationalistic government, he went on to say. He explained that they want rapid industrialization, which can only come if the Russians ship them machinery. The chances are that the Russians cannot spare this machinery, so their prestige will fail, Reischauer added...
...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...
...both groups, simple-souled, common-sensical Joe Lockman is a freak-"a stray bird of the cormorant capitalist species" who has somehow blundered into their nest. Similarly, to Joe, both purists and realists are crazy products of a U.S. he has never known...
...were driving along the mountain road on which Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the Philippines' first President, was assassinated by the Communist-led Huks* last spring. For miles the road was deserted. Stray pieces of rotting cloth and bullet-ridden luggage still mark the site of the ambush. Soldiers for our party, clutching their carbines, fanned out to survey the scene; one flushed a parrot from a high fern. "I knew three of the dead," said their lieutenant, and idly fired four rounds of ammunition at a towering lawan tree. "In memory of Mrs. Quezon and my three friends...