Word: wayward
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Where rivulets dance their wayward...
...plot is framed within the limits of "Going My Way"; the young lovers have been replaced by an older pair, the bankrupt church by a bankrupt school, the wayward boys by a wayward girl, one scrooge by another, and both establishments are saved by a somewhat dubious miracle...
...stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into a pond. She sympathetically followed Amery's career into the respected, conservative Cabinet member he became. Of his wayward elder son she wrote: "John Amery was not insane, he was not evil, but his character was like the kind of car that will not hold to the road. . . . There are some who are always 15. John Amery continued ... to like automobiles ... as an adolescent does, and had as fresh and bounding...
...bloc. . . . Everything is centered on one man-the leader, the hero, the duce, the Führer. Herd responses not being on the rational level, this hero does not appeal by argument. ('I was just realizing how much better it is to reason with these poor wayward fellows,' Plastic Man observes as he drives a left to the jaw.) He builds on the herd's dreams: he hypnotizes. Thus did Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The Superman of the cartoons is true to his sources. He is not another Horatio Alger hero or a Nick Carter...
Whether a "wayward" girl is a euphemism or a description, the San Francisco City Clinic has decided that "promiscuous" women can be defined: "Married women who had engaged in any extramarital sexual relations within [the last six months] and single women who have had sexual relations with more than one man, or with one man more than twice, within the same period...