Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandeis' first pitcher, Rick Horowitz, had trouble keeping the ball under control in all of the six innings he played. On a wild pitch to Harvard's cleanup man, Carter Lord, Grate scored as Cobb and Ignacio moved into scoring position...
...fully independent of one another as they must be to satisfy the mathematical law; the factor of a Negro with a beard, for instance, overlaps the possibility that the bearded Negro may be part of an interracial couple. The 12 million to 1 figure, therefore, was just "wild conjecture." In addition, there was not complete agreement among the witnesses about the characteristics in question. "No mathematical equation," added the court, "can prove beyond a reasonable doubt (1) that the guilty couple in fact possessed the characteristics described by the witnesses, or even (2) that only one couple possessing those distinctive...
While proven classroom performance remains the best ticket to college, other qualities can also turn the trick - a wild sense of humor, a weird hobby, or almost anything that sets a student off from the ordinary. Anxious to tap un usual attributes that may not show up in a high school senior's grades or test scores, college admissions officials are relying more heavily on references from school principals and personal inter views with the applicant himself. In selecting next year's freshmen, the nation's leading universities took extra pains to seek out students who, says...
This earnestness in the face of farce is of a piece with Updike's general reverence toward sex. His contemporaries invade the ground with wild Dionysian yelps, mocking both the taboos that would make it forbidden and the lust that drives men to it. Updike can be honest about it, and his descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of women's bodies can be perfect little madrigals...
Smith led off with a walk. After a fly out and a walk to Jim Cox, the M.I.T. pitcher started to crack. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third. Another wild pitch brought Smith hurtling in from third, but the catcher was there to meet him. When the dust cleared. Smith was out. Dorwart singled and again the runners advanced on a wild pitch. With two out and runners on second and third, Harvard's leading batter and shortstop, Jeff Grate, came to bat. He lined the second pitch into deep right field for a single, scoring...