Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical professors, S.D.S. organized a huge rally in the Cornell fieldhouse, at which 6,000 whites threatened to stage their own demonstrations. Black leaders flatly refused to reopen talks with either administration or faculty, and student opinion seemed to be swinging to their side. In a wild eruption of demagoguery, Black Senior Tom Jones shouted: "Cornell has only one hour to live!" In the past, he cried, "it's been the blacks who did all the dying. Now's the time when the pigs are going to die. James Perkins is going to be dealt with. The faculty...
...Cornell in "a situation of emergency," and on his initiative, more than 350 armed men-mostly sheriff's deputies from nearby counties-were deployed to Ithaca, ready to move onto the campus. A wing of the local hospital was evacuated for expected emergency cases. Ithaca was seized with wild rumors, including one that students would try to take over the plant of a local small-arms manufacturer...
...farm losses and certain trust income. Another target is "multiple subsidiaries"-a method by which some companies split up into myriad separate firms to take advantage of the lower tax rates (22% v. 48%) imposed on businesses with less than $25,000 income. Nixon also took aim at some wild abuses by tax-exempt organizations. Among other things, private foundations would be required to substantiate their charitable activities and be barred from financial dealings with contributors, directors or other insiders. The investment income of social clubs and other tax-exempt organizations would be taxed. Churches would have to pay taxes...
While Harvard's relief staff ran out to the bullpen, southpaw Nickens hit Jim Murray with a wild pitch and left fielder Tom Peterson added a second 358-foot home run to left. Kalinowski came in and struck out Denny Hayden to hold Army to a 5-0 lead...
Columbia errors triggered Harvard's three-run spree in the third. Pete Bernhard walked to lead off the inning and advanced on a wild pitch by losing pitcher John Heyel and an infield out by DeMichele. With two down, Varney hit a grounder to third that went between the legs of the Lions' Jim Alloy...