Both Uses
awry
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- The young lieutenant had been painstakingly trained to understand everything that went on in the reactor systems and to know what to do if things went awry.†
Chpt 9. *
- An operation gone awry, and the Americans trying to find out who was responsible and how it was done so that they might try to do it themselves?†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(awry) in an unintended way; or in improper position
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)