Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hush settled over the blasted land scape at 10 p.m. on July 27, 1953. General Matthew Ridgway, commander of the United Nations forces, later recalled that "there was no wild celebrating or fraternizing such as had marked the end of other wars." Men slumped wearily around a bottle of whisky or tried the unusual sensation of standing upright without flinching. Thus, after two years and 17 days of simultaneous fighting and negotiating, the Korean War came to an end just 15 years ago this week. The U.S. suffered 140,000 casualties, including 34,000 dead, in the more than three...
...mothers and carry off the young orangutans for illegal sale to foreign zoos (price: as much as $4,000 apiece). To save this vanishing Asian cousin of Africa's gorilla and chimpanzee, Sabah state officials are seizing young orangutans from poachers and trying to retrain them for the wild...
Still, Wong's jungle boot camp has been a partial success. So far, eight "graduates" have not reappeared in months; yet some orangs, like a young female named Joan, seem unable to make up their minds. She mated in the wild but came back to have her baby. Now she wanders in and out of the camp with little Joan clinging to her side, enjoying the best of both worlds...
...been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild, anarchistic imagination...
...life": a game in which both teams, between them, collected only eight hits and struck out 20 times. The only score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home on a double play. That unearned run gave the National League the game and Mays the Most Valuable Player award...