glaring typo

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, looks right to me.

JL

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> My Mac dictionary has
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> move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction : the car
> careered across the road and went through a hedge.
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> BB
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> On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
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> > Could this use of "career" be an instance of the OED's second meaning
> > for the verb, "to gallop, run or move at full speed"?
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> > On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:54 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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> >>
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> >> Officials say three carriages of the 14-car Nevsky Express,
> >> travelling from
> >> Moscow to St. Petersburg, careered off the tracks Friday night as
> >> the train
> >> approached speeds of 200 km/h in a rural area.
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> >> (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/28/russia-derailment.html)
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