Word: wayward
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...fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest for such a trivial thing as personal happiness...
Little mistakes like Wilford's wayward pass that was returned for a touchdown and pulled Dartmouth to within a pair of touchdowns, 35-21, may not have hurt the Crimson last week...
With Harvard holding a commanding 23-10 lead over Cornell with 3:56 left in the game, a stunned Big Red crowd of 9,218 watched as Crimson linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski grabbed a wayward pass by quarterback Ricky Rahne at the Harvard 12, seemingly sealing a victory for Harvard...
Harvard's second touchdown came early in the third quarter. In another example of the Crimson defense creating scoring opportunities for the Harvard offense, Kacyvenski intercepted a wayward Rahne pass at the Cornell 38 and then ran to the Cornell...
Harvard also survived a scare late in the fourth quarter when Kacyvenski collided with junior safety Mike Brooks. Both lunged to intercept a wayward long pass from Columbia's Mike Glynn when they slammed into each other. Kacyvenski spent a few tense moments on the ground as the raucous crowd of 7,192 suddenly went silent. Kacyvenski eventually walked off the field without aid, but Brooks required assistance. Kacyvenski returned for the next play and said Brooks will probably avoid contact in practice this week...