Word: waywardly
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...Franklin decides he is ready for marriage. Though not his first choice, the stolidly middle-class Deborah seems a good "helpmate." When they hear rumors of her wayward husband's death, Deborah moves in with Ben, accepts his recently born illegitimate offspring William as her stepson and takes on the mantle of Mrs. Franklin. It is a common-law union never recorded in church for fear of bigamy charges, but it prospers. While her husband nurtures his publications, she runs their store, selling everything from writing materials to tea and coffee to a well-known homemade ointment for "the itch...
...veined and dotted with pipes and pumps and meters, Faw was also a delicate target, easily damaged by wayward ordnance or sabotage. So, on the first night of the war, when others were trying to destroy Iraqi targets, the men of the Naval Special Warfare Task Group were trying to save one. Large, specially equipped Pave Low helicopters flew dark, low and fast toward the refinery from just over the Kuwait border. Dispersing on arrival, the choppers simultaneously dropped five separate teams of 20 Navy SEAL commandos each at five "key nodes" around the huge complex. Their orders: hold each...
...Fugitive (smoking bus). After arriving in Austin at 4 a.m., they scrubbed up for a 7 a.m. rally and showed up at their jobs at 9. Though they were met with some boos from the gallery and a lot of female Republicans dressed in fighting G.O.P. red, the wayward Democrats did get some hugs from their colleagues across the aisle. While Tom DeLay may be disappointed that his power grab seems to have failed, he has got to be happy that he forced Democrats to bunk two to a room at an Oklahoma Holiday Inn. --Reported by Hilary Hylton/Ardmore
...clown fish) who learn the onerous joys of fatherhood. Like many classic Disney cartoons, and Spielberg fables, Finding Nemo is about the traumatic separation of a child from his parent. The refreshing difference here is that Nemo dramatizes the anxiety (and adventures) a parent undergoes searching for his wayward, precious...
There is often a bleak beauty to Marooned in Iraq's landscapes. But pictorialism aside, it is a unique experience--abrupt, jagged, almost childlike in its ever shifting tones. Driven equally by wayward and bestartling incidents that blow up and blow away, and by an old man's abiding passion, it's a film that is exotic in its rhythms yet utterly comprehensible in its humanity. You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort. --By Richard Schickel