Word: strays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Fowle Durant as a Christian college dedicated to "the glorification of God through the higher education of women." It is located on a peaceful clump of green field that looks like ten or twelve Harvard Yards thrown together. There are no men around except for a few janitors and stray faculty. Of course there are young men about on Friday and Saturday nights, and for Tuesday night coffee, Wednesday afternoon tea and Sunday noon dinner; but they hardly cause a stir. They always wear easy sport coats and speak infrequently and quietly. Dates without sport coats do not come...
...traction, onto the floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop firing on my patients...