Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird, Lyndon's Aunt Jessie Hatcher and his cousin, Oriole Bailey, along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie Hunter, curator of the President's boyhood home, dropped in to eat turkey (one domestic, one wild), cornbread dressing, string beans, whipped sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, molded cranberry salad and angel food cake...
...longer, not in the psychedelic '60s. Today, Sunset Strip is a new kind of playground: a wild weekend happening for youth from all over the Los Angeles area. It is a sight to behold...
...police went after the "juvies" (minors under 18), began carting them off by the busload last summer for violating a 10 p.m. curfew dating back to 1939. As arrests increased 300%, grumbles soon grew to rumbles. Charging police brutality, the Strippies last month protested with two consecutive weekends of wild rioting; mobs of youths, at times numbering as many as 2,000, smashed store windows, tried to burn buses, and pelted police with rocks and bottles, bringing on 200 arrests. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors decided to get tougher, last week unanimously rescinded the "youth permits" of twelve...
...third straight year, Harvard has a solid outfit. But anyone who has watched Crimson fencing the past two years will refrain from wild optimism. Harvard will begin, as usual, by clobbering a string of third-rate teams, but Columbia and N.Y.U. will continue to be invincible. And Harvard may continue to drop sloppy 14-13 decisions to Cornell and Princeton, as it did last year...
...reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell...