Word: waywardly
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Often, In flouting his wayward accusative...
With a sense of obligation towards its wayward and spoiled child, CRIMSON foster parents have decided that the offspring shall henceforth be known as the Elm Tree Society. The elm Tree, we are told, was once the gathering place in the Yard for dissident rebels in the student body...
Rendezvous in Senlis (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Edward Owen Marsh), though early and playful Anouilh, has all his earmarks and tooth marks, his jarring flavors, his jolting banter, his cactus-spined nonsense. It is also as often wordy as witty, and wayward as skillful. In a very jaunty first act. a young man-to impress a young lady-rents a house and hires himself two parents and an old family retainer. Then it turns out that he already has a wife, whose wealth keeps his real parents and his mistress and her husband in luxurious idleness...
...Visibly distressed when a wayward tee shot struck a five-year-old girl in the gallery, Golfer Arnold Palmer blew a two-stroke lead in the final round of the Phoenix Open, needed a difficult 8-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to tie fast-closing Doug Sanders. In next day's playoff, Palmer shot a 67, beat Sanders by three strokes for the $4,300 first prize. It was Palmer's second win in six 1961 tournaments-a pace putting him ahead of his remarkable 1960 performance...
...past year Jordan's King Hussein wrote in eloquent defense of his sometimes wayward brother, Crown Prince Mohammed; Kenya's Tom Mboya wrote to amplify his role in the London Conference on Africa. On the weighty subject of nuclear controls, former AEC Member Thomas E. Murray stated the case for continued testing, and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey argued in rebuttal that the issue was not technological but political...