Word: waywardly
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...size, (it is the third largest library in terms of volumes owned, in the country), and for the horror stories people tell about it. Some tell tales of the Wandering Graduate Students who prowls the lower levels of the stacks feeding on old critiques of Medieval Scholaticism and accosting wayward freshmen who have lost the golden thread which they tied to the entrance of the stacks in order to find their way back. This stuff is just not true, nor are the tales of skeletal remains found in carrels or those of people who got locked in the stacks...
Elvis Presley's admirers always thought of him as the King, a proud and wayward spirit in those white suits and sequins. Now it turns out that he had second thoughts about his wiggy getups and secretly yearned to be an informant...
...assistant, a maid of honor and the best man were waiting in her apartment near Boston to attend the wedding rehearsal. When the bridegroom, Kenneth Levitt, 25, failed to show, Christine phoned his parents' home and was told, "Ken just left." But hours later, with the wayward groom still missing, Christine says, Ken's parents told her that their son had gone off to consider whether he should back out of the marriage...
...full of men whose only idea of activism was a sallow girl named Joanne, and none of my courses seemed relevant. I asked for a minority roommate, at least one, but instead was allotted a strapping Oklahoman with a "69" football shirt and soft contact lenses. He was the wayward son of a Senator. Some diversity, I thought. I am here to grow, I told myself one day in the Union when no one was listening. And the only way to get my father's money's worth was to take part in University life. I would...
...interesting to speculate about why this sensationalism occurred. Too young to have participated in the civil rights-antiwar protests, some present college students feel that they have somehow missed out, that gone are the days when college unrest meant rectitude and legitimacy in a wayward nation. This romanticized understanding of campus turbulence in the past influences attitudes toward today's events. To the demonstrations of last week The Crimson reacted with the glee of a spoiled child who has just been given his lollypop...