Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cement finisher from Los Angeles: "You take Nixon and Humphrey and shake 'em up in a bag and they come out the same?a couple of namby-pambys who are going to keep giving our money away to other countries while they let a bunch of punks run wild in this country." Says Noble Olson, a Cincinnati civil engineer: "Nixon maybe is the better of two evils. But I am through voting for the better of two evils...
Gorey: After watching the wild, rushing quality of Humphrey's campaign, Nixon's seems like clockwork. Humphrey is about as susceptible to programming as the Marx Brothers...
...battled its way through two and a half hours of wild and vociferous debate over ROTC only to bog down to an indecisive adjournment in the third straight week of ROTC discussions...
...general, however, Coach John Yovicsin could not have been wild with delight about the afternoon. Quarterback George Lalich, perhaps keeping the wraps on a little with Cornell scouts in the stands, was not impressive as a passer. He threw just eight times, completing four for 33 yards...
Pretty Flimsy. Conditions were quite different when the Tokyo exchange set its previous record back in 1961. That high, it turned out, was based on pretty flimsy ground and was soon followed by a rapid collapse. Wild speculation by unregulated brokerage houses, which often used customers' portfolios as collateral, was chiefly responsible for driving up prices. When the bubble burst, thousands of investors lost their life savings. Of some 1,500 Japanese securities firms, fewer than 400 survived...