Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason and life. Set against him throughout and surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
Baltimore's Steve Barber became the second major league pitcher in history to lose a 9-inning no-hitter, as two walks, a wild pitch, and an error gave Detroit a 2-1 win over the Orioles yesterday. Other scores: Kansas City 1 BOSTON 0 Detroit 2-6 Baltimore 1-4 Yankees 3-2 California 0-4 Cleveland 2-2 Chicago 1-4 Washington 7-3 Minnesota 3-0 San Francisco 5 Los Angeles 1 Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 0 Mets 2-8 Cincinnati 0-3 Philadelphia 6-3 Atlanta 4-6 Chicago 4 Houston...
...crime punishable by death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day." In other words, even criminals were to be spared the possibility of mutilation by wild animals after their execution. Orthodox extremists interpret that injunction as meaning that any human must be given prompt burial before his body can come to harm, except when an autopsy can help save the life of a person in the immediate area...
...Absolutely Wild." The obvious goal for any ambitious bank or bank group is to span the U.S. with a single credit-card system. With computers keeping the bookkeeping cost within bounds, local banks would reimburse local merchants, then pass their bills on to the cardholders' own banks for collection. In the race to go transcontinental, the giant Bank of America has grabbed an early lead. Last year it began licensing banks outside its California domain to use its highly successful (2,057,000 members, $228 million annual billings) BankAmericard. Fifteen banks have signed up, adding 1,500,000 cardholders...
...hurts," she mutters, in a plotless sequence as muzzy as her mood. Marie-France and Veronica tells of two chic Parisiennes, not yet 17, sophisticated but full of curiosity about the homme-dingers hanging around them. While Marie-France reads Baudelaire, Veronica lives him, at an endless round of wild parties. Her destiny, she sighs, is a marriage of convenience when...