Word: wayward
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...hour clock (1800 hours, for example, means 6 p.m. G.M.T. and 2 p.m. E.D.T.). Although the full transcript shows four planes in contact with ground controllers, only two closed in for the kill. The number 805 identifies the pilot of the Su-15 who shot down the wayward airliner; 163 denotes the pilot of the MiG-23 who accompanied him in the chase. Communication from the Soviet ground stations to the pilots is not available...
...meliorism of humor, which happily abounds in this novel. The author's favorite trick is the fast shuffle, the scrambling of conventional wisdom to produce a comic insight. Describing an unconsummated love affair, Tony says that "the spirit is willing but the flesh is strong." And this wayward narrator even pretends that being funny is not what he has on his mind at all. Objecting to the word, he plans "never to chuckle, neither do I wish to be the cause of others' doing so." On this point, as on so many others, De Vries cannot be serious...
...NOTEBOOK. In action closer to home this weekend. Dartmouth's heavyweights overcame the competition and a wayward sailboat en route to victory Saturday on the Charles. The Big Green defeated MIT and Wisconsin, but first collided with a dinghy belonging to the Community Boat House...
Stratas, all flashing dark eyes and soaring (though sometimes rough-edged) voice, dominates the action. She may be the wayward woman of the opera's title, but when she turns her killer glance on Domingo in the first act, it is clear that he is the one who is really lost. Even with a full beard and tousled head of auburn hair. Domingo cannot disguise the fact that he is at least 15 years too old for the callow hero, but he makes Alfredo into an unusually impetuous, even violent personality. As Alfredo's father, veteran Baritone Cornell...
Invented and manufactured in Japan, the WallWalker has a certain Nipponese unpredictability: it never follows the same pattern twice in its wayward descent, seemingly pausing at times to reflect on its fate, at others engaging in a manic bout of activity. Many WallWalker buffs buy several of them at a time and mount a mural ballet. It is also cheap. More than 10 million in green, blue, yellow, red and black have been sold in the U.S. at between $1.69 and $2.50 since its introduction to a few cities late last year, and there are seemingly thousands more miles...