Word: strays
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...about other POW escape movies and judging this one by their fictionally enhanced standards. Dengler becomes, in this incarnation, an almost merry soul, dauntlessly rallying his bedraggled troops (there are only six men in this camp). We're obviously not talking Stalag 17 or The Great Escape here, but stray thoughts of movies in that mode inevitably tug at our minds and somewhat vitiate the power of this...
Most days, main street in the tiny farm community of Yuma, Colo., is slow, save for a few folks meandering from Hardware Hank's to the coffee shop and maybe some pickup trucks poking along, the better to avoid a stray dog or loose child...
...understood that we were creating something fresh,” says Colantuono, who remembers taking steps to ensure that the UC wouldn’t stray to the realm of the irrelevant and the self-serving, despite the insinuations of The Crimson announcement of the previous spring. When Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III proposed a set of architectural adjustments that would have greatly enhanced the new council’s basement office space but drained thousands of dollars from their budget, Colantuono nixed the idea...
...dare to hope. The dwindling dream of a successful general education still lies entirely in its implementation, which is in the hands of the new Standing Committee on general education. Although this will allow the system to stray from its original purpose in the long run, the committee’s blank check will empower them to make substantial changes in implementing the new system...
...interests of the students for whom much ink has been spilt, we beseech the Committee to stray from the constrictiveness of the Core Curriculum in favor of flexibility and freedom for students, creating system that does not tyrannize students with its narrowness. If they err in this regard, general education will amount to nothing but a shiny new set of hoops through which each undergraduate must joylessly jump. But they have the power to improve on the current system’s frustrating inflexibility, even if it is too late to save the whole curricular review...