Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus, most protest groups have been less noisy than they were last spring, and vacations are not entirely responsible. "This is not the wild and woolly teach-in atmosphere of last year," said French-born Southeast Asia Expert Bernard Fall, a levelheaded critic of Administration policy, after a discussion on Viet Nam at the University of Illinois last week. "There is far less 'Let's clean up the Chinese' on one hand and 'Let's get the hell out' on the other...
Rosa did the now famous portrait depicting Bill astride his favorite Appaloosa. In return for the portrait, the King of Cowboys sent Rosa a pair of wild American mustangs. In no time at all, they were broken in and eating out of Rosa's hand, just as tame as kittens. They were the models for some of her most important pictures...
...less a barrier to stable government is the economic impoverishment of most African nations. With economies still based on agriculture, they have been unable to meet the wild expectations of their peoples that independence would automatically bring prosperity...
...sizzling speed, the kind that gave him five no-hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring, he finally got the hang...
...Buffalo Bill was New Yorker Charles Schreyvogel, who reached manhood in the 1880s only to find that the West had already been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore Roosevelt, that he gave...