Word: astray
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...damp-eyed notion about the basketball scandal was that the players who dumped games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...
...prose pieces, a streetear named Leehmere--via--Subway goes astray, the Watch and Ward detective deals with a mean-eyed gun-toting John Marquand, and, to get out of Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...
Lead all correctly, or lead us astray...
Dennis suffers the penalty of being too good. Opposing teams and fans ride him hard when a behind-the-back pass goes astray or a shot taken while moving away from the basket does not go in. In the Wesleyan game he seemed affected by the shouting of a group of fans...
...broadcast to the nation Leopold said: "I address a solemn appeal to you for concord and I implore you not to be led astray in sterile and vain struggles . . . The King is a symbol of the continuity of the nation. He is a counselor placed above party struggles, respectful of the decisions of the majority, attentive to the opinions of the minority. Whatever additional tests the future can impose on me, this role will be mine...