Word: wayward
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...Rowe) reveals the real state of affairs to him. Aghast at the thought of becoming her prey, Jack flees to Spain, only to be taken captive in the Sierra Nevada mountains by band of brigands led by an appealingly urbane character called Mendoza (Jeremy Geidt). In the end, the wayward Jack is finally reclaimed by the tenacious Ann, who tracks him down, accompanied by the entire party...
...their bids for student president in college. Both avoided the draft. Both married politically shrewd women from families of higher social standing. Neither man much cares for alcohol, though both enjoy a celebratory cigar. Both are Baptists who believe in "redemption and resurrection"--as Lott often reminds a wayward lawmaker whose vote he is seeking...
This week, at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Orlando, Florida, scientists will announce not one but three experimental treatments for rheumatoid arthritis. Each is thoroughly modern, using genetically engineered proteins or custom-designed antibodies to combat the disease at its source, blocking the wayward steps leading to the body's self-destruction before further damage occurs...
Half a million Americans suffer strokes each year. Four times out of five, the cause is a wayward clot that blocks an artery and robs the brain of oxygen-rich blood. Nerve cells start to die, depriving key parts of the body of the cerebral instructions they need to function. TPA can change all that by dissolving the clot and restoring blood flow before any damage is done to the brain. "It's the first bright sign that we've had that something we're doing actually works," says Dr. Cathy Helgason, a professor of neurology at the University...
...which was once necessary for it to turn the next wheel of the machine. We once had such a thing as a cogwheel. Now they run much more smoothly, after we removed the cogs, less friction, that sort of thing, and you don't have to concern yourself with wayward cogs anymore, or fitting them to the proper size--oh, what effort that did take. Spare yourself...