Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina's ship of state, sailing its wayward course of "prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...
...many days after exams last June, a wayward Crimeditor left his typewriters and yellow copy paper and sneaked into the recruiting station on Huntington Avenue. Last night, the musty smell of ink and exchanges lured him off Plympton Street into the old haunts...
...problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of large European and Asiatic cuckoos which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leave their young to be brought up by foster parents.* Author: the 78-year-old dean of British ornithologists, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, C.I.E.; O.B.E.; F.Z.S.; M.B.O.U.; H.F.A.O.U.; H.F.H.O.U.; F.L.S...
...Unpredictable is the Yellow's fickle course. In the last 100 years "China's Sorrow" has wandered about 700 miles up & down the China coast. After the Battle of Taierhchwang (1938) the Chinese, not nature, broke the south dyke and sent the wayward river against the Jap invader, into the course it still pursues...
Armed with powerful flashlights Andy Kaufmann and Bill Putnam went back up the Glacier and with their lights were able to lead the wayward members of the party back to the base camp before they tumbled into a ravine...