Word: waywardly
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...dynamite bomb attached by magnets to the bottom of a car. The driver brutally maimed after the electronic triggering mechanism was set off by remote control. The hit man far from the scene. But the locale was not Chicago's West Side and the victim was not a wayward mobster. He was Investigative Reporter Donald F. Bolles, 47, and his death in Phoenix last week of injuries from the bomb underscored the viciousness and power of organized crime in Arizona in a way nothing he wrote ever could have...
...according to this theory, that the only way a Communist Party could attain power in a democracy is by adhering to Western political ideals. That might well be the case, but it remains unknown what kind of pressure the Soviet Union might still be able to exert on its wayward ally, and also what kind of pressure Berlinguer might have to face from his hard-lining Moscow-oriented comrades within the party. Campaign promises, as Italian voters have reason to know, are not written in stone...
...wayward musician recorded his first album in the Midwest where he was billed as "The Walking Blind Man," Kirk is now popular on both coasts...
...Wayward hackers have been known to place the job security of many a caddy in jeopardy. One of the more dreaded layouts was a quaint nine-hole course on Weihaiwei Island in China that was shut down after the revolution. Sporting greens of packed fine sand instead of grass, its most conspicuous landmarks were an adjacent shooting gallery, an abandoned fort swarming with scorpions, and a short ninth hole which required bouncing a drive off the clubhouse roof...
There is nothing startling or even wayward in his work. Nothing seems to bubble up unbidden out of his unconscious, out of those memories he must surely share with all actors, of bad ideas tried out in rehearsal and found embarrassing, of nights when he must have felt he was going to boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon...