Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nemelka by scoring 21 points, 13 more than his season average. The whole Brigham Young team played such thoughtful run-and-shoot basketball that, after its 97-84 win, Coach Stan Watts gleefully added two words to the frequently used description of the Cougars' style, making it "wild and woolly-and calculated...
Louis Bailey didn't even have time to step off the court before he and Haven Pell, a Harvard junior, faced off in doubles against the Princeton recquetmen. A wild rebound hit Pell in the eye early in the first game, but Bailey was able to lead nearly singlehandedly and crush Princeton, 41-29, under a new scoring system introduced halfway through the match...
...Cabinet, and Sukarno even had the effrontery to dismiss Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution, 47, leader of the anti-Red forces that thwarted the Communists' October coup. When the generals let matters ride, thousands of Djakarta students-with tacit approval from the military-went on a wild, three-week rampage, sacking government ministries, pillaging the Red Chinese consulate, and clogging the streets with their demonstrations...
Soon after, he obtained a good spectrum from the quasar and, like his colleagues Sandage and Greenstein, he was puzzled by the sight of unfamilar spectral lines. But after staring at the spectrum for six weeks, Schmidt had a wild, almost desperate thought. Three closely spaced spectral lines on his photographic plate resembled hydrogen lines. But they were not in the blue segment of the spectrum where they belonged: they were superimposed on the red portion instead. Could they actually be hydrogen lines that had shifted to longer wave lengths...
Limited Lode. From its beginning, Homestake was the dominant economic, social and cultural force in its area. The town of Deadwood, last resting place of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, grew up less than five miles away as an entertainment annex for the miners. Now, with 1,692 workers at Lead (pop. 6,200), Homestake is South Dakota's second largest industrial employer. It has given its workers so many benefits -a free hospital, elaborate recreation center and incentive bonuses-that Homestake employees have roundly rejected unions five times...