Word: waywardly
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Rising out of a field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning...
...owned by Tyson's aunt and uncle. From the moment the antique vehicle sputters out onto the turnpike, one knows what is going to happen: by sharing a number of misadventures, the man and the woman will fall in love, and the youngsters will learn to abandon their wayward ways. The children's growing affection for their driver will, in turn, soften him so that he can be molded into respectability in time for a denouement that will not miss a single upbeat note...
Washington's unsettling reports were met with some skepticism abroad. Most experts in Western Europe felt that Moscow's latest military movements were mainly meant to intimidate the wayward Poles. One Soviet official visiting the U.S., Georgi Arbatov, director of Moscow's Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, insisted last week that "nobody in the Soviet Union wants a dramatic development [an invasion] in Poland, because it would have tragic consequences for our own relations with that country." Yet he conveyed the clear implication that an invasion may be unavoidable: "After...
Revving for action, the once wayward space bus passes a test...
...chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping key civil liberties legislation, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A good Congressman, Celler once said, must have "the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat and the good humor of an idiot...