Word: straying
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...disaster; he hurled the Germans back six times before the crumbling line on his left flank forced the French command to order his retreat. He retreated fighting. Yet he found time to analyze the causes of the French defeat and to apply the lessons in practice. By picking up stray trucks and equipment wherever he could, he managed to reorganize his units into some semblance of a motorized division with greatly strengthened fire power...
Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...
...activity subordinated to a particular ideology and designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line in the U.S.S.R., and those who stray from it do so at their peril...
...bought 20 years before; so confused that he started the wedding march on the wrong foot; and so dazed that he became hypnotized by the expression of the minister's nostrils and muffed his only line in the service. He spent part of the reception chasing stray dogs out of the house, and unlocking bumpers and directing traffic in the improvised parking lot behind the house...
...monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...