Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Off to Kenya's Nairobi National Game Park to examine Africa's vanishing wild life and the efforts being made to preserve...
...that Dichter had a more promising future as a soloist. Still, when the Russians broached the idea of dividing the first prize between Sokolov and Dichter, Hendl vetoed it on the grounds that dividing leading prizes weakened their impact. The jury voted, Sokolov won, and the crowd promptly went wild-for Dichter. Five hundred Russians who had stayed until 2 a.m. to hear the results, kept chanting "Bravo Dichter! Bravo Dichter!", and several women wept and pressed flowers into his outstretched hands. For once it appeared that in Russia, it was not whether you won, but how you played...
That disruption showed clearly last week in the increasingly wild rate war for savings deposits between commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loan associations. In New York City, about a quarter of the mutual savings banks boosted their rates from 4½% to 5%. Even so, many reported "heavy" withdrawals by savers attracted to 5¼% "certificates of deposit-money left to earn interest for a stated time-at commercial banks. In California, at least 40 associations followed the controversial lead of Los Angeles-based Home Savings & Loan in raising rates on passbook accounts from...
...cause of all this excitement was the simple soybean, the hottest item in the seething U.S. commodities market. Last week futures for soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal set seasonal records after a month of wild trading. A cool speculator who decided to hold on to his contracts for the month could have tripled his money. In trading last week price changes twice reached the permissible daily limit of 10? per bu., and to take the heat out of the market the Board of Trade has doubled in stages the margin required of a trader...
...lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they are all here, sometimes twice and sometimes in flocks: "The immediate result of this dramatic departure...