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Word: strays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...smile or listening, hands folded prayerfully, concentrating with a ferocity that is a virtual assault of attentiveness. And he uses It like a movie star. The confluence of politics and performance finds its nexus in his indefatigable showmanship. He wants to romance not just the Congress or perhaps a stray intern but America, the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Harvard students not only rely on books brought from home for light study break entertainment. According to employees at several bookstores in the Square, many often stray from the textbook section, venture into children's books for purchases that demand less of their minds and their wallets...

Author: By Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Peek Into the Bookshelf and Back to Childhood | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...them to their targets, exposing crews to hostile fire. However, the grainy but riveting videos of U.S. bombs and missiles whistling down enemy smokestacks heralded a new way of waging war from the skies. New weapons with ever increasing accuracy lead the Pentagon to be confident that few will stray, thus limiting what military euphemists refer to as "collateral damage"--innocent, but dead, civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are The Smart Bombs Really Smarter Now? | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...David won't stray. An old teacher said, "If you stuck a girl or a ball in front of David, he'd pick up the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...every day one reads about the philosophy of Jurgen Habermas in the newspaper. Unfortunately, my surprise did not lead to gratification in this instance, because it seems to me that Cotton's understanding of Habermas, leaving much to be desired, has led him to some stray conclusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cotton Can Learn From Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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