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Word: wilde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game? What was left was to match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy on the end of 130-lb. line suddenly came alive when the rig was reduced to 30 lb., flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Light Fantastic | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

First-time passengers on Nairobi-based East African Airways are almost always noticeably nervous. And with reason. Emblazoned with the national colors (green, yellow, red, white, black and blue) of its three partners (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), E.A.A. planes look like a wild trip even when they are on the ground. To make matters worse, travelers in Africa are usually aware that the line's 30,000-mile network covers some of the world's roughest terrain, including bush runways plagued with mud and giant anthills that can rise up between flights. Yet for all its drawbacks, E.A.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Flying High Out of Africa | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into a hectic crescendo of slapstick, sight gag, pratfall and pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Party | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...just asked him if we had free speech on the base and he went wild...

Author: By Rotc TRICK Knee team and Captain No-l, S | Title: Alice's Restaurant Revisited | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

...able to dip into this well of memory is appalling. It was sad indeed to hear the chairman of the Jubilee Committee list the reasons for lack of participation: no so-called "soul music and the bad reputation of Jubilee--the belief that it would be a "wild orgy." Perhaps our lady does have a bad name; then it is up to you to get it straight again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wither Jubilee? | 4/15/1968 | See Source »

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