Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, there was no way to discipline what Heimert calls an increasing number of "wayward students" in the late '60s and early '70s. All students, not just card-carrying members of SDS, and even in the traditionally upper crust world of Eliot House were rebelling against Harvard-and its dress code...
Every morning at nine, Jarrett slips on a pair of flats and begins roaming the three floors of P.S. 154. After observing her ask The Question a number of times of wayward small folk, I tried it myself. When I spotted five-year-old Kenny in baggy jeans slinking along the wall on the second floor, I strode up to him and said, "Where do you belong?" He looked down, shuffled his little Nikes and mumbled the number of a classroom before shooting me a look that said, "Where do you belong...
...traffic controllers are the true macho men of sky biz--cowboy choreographers who get the dozens of planes over New York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...
...Most cultures, at least of the complex, "civilized" variety, have penalized women who stray or have taken sadistic measures to prevent that from happening in the first place, from raping or killing them to labeling them "cheap." In parts of Latin America and the Middle East, "honor killings" of wayward daughters or sisters are common and treated indulgently by the courts. In some African countries, young women have their clitorises excised to dull their sexual appetite. If women are the innately more monogamous sex, why the widespread and fanatic efforts to get them to keep their legs crossed...
...Touched by an Angel (1) An angel named Monica touches a wayward soul...