Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clinging to a slim lead throughout the second half, a stray Harvard shot with over three minutes left gave Bentley, trailing by just a single point, the ball and brought the Bentley fans to their feet...
...Dennis Rainear, 26, of Midland, Mich., was thankful that he was alive. While running in a race to qualify for the Boston marathon, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet, did not realize what had happened, wobbled to the finish line, then was taken to a hospital, where the bullet was removed from his skull...
...camera might not be kind to her. Her strong jaw, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones are riveting, rather than cover-girl cute. Much of her appeal stems from her continuous movements: the shrug of a shoulder, the toss of a stray curl, the arch of an eyebrow. Her hands are especially graceful, whether swimming gently in the air to punctuate her speech, or flinging back a scarf in an Isadora Duncan-like gesture. The interviewer drinks in the entire picture--the jawline, the blacks and purple clothing, the dark eyes set in white skin--and a one-word impression forms...
...incidental grace notes that so enriched Upstairs, Downstairs. The supply of gifted British character actors seems as inexhaustible as ever. John Rapley does several small but exquisitely understated turns as Louisa's fond, henpecked father; his face looks like a suet pudding garnished with two cocktail onions and a stray mustache. The sets are lavish collages of deep textures and polished surfaces, and the outdoor locations seem almost too spacious for the limited confines of the television screen. When Louisa goes marketing, she walks by an assemblage of what appears to be every vegetable in England. The gargantuan Edwardian meals...
...cluster, are mounted on a single Y-shaped yoke that tilts and turns like a gun mount. Rather than a traditional dome, MMT's designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same object across the skies with an accuracy of . 1 second of arc, I roughly equivalent to keeping a quarter in the cross hairs of six separate...