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Word: wilde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have neither full control of provincial police, as in the past, nor strong tribal ties. To reassure whites, he recently formed a "committee of intervention" composed of army men, government officials and whites whose job is to discourage racial strife. He has also removed the radical leadership of his wild Jeunesse (youth) movement, whose members last summer sacked the Belgian embassy and menaced whites in the streets of Kinshasa, the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Cause for Optimism | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...designing and Bass handling the business end, the pair produced a line of loose-cut, tightly belted dresses in ordinary ginghams and rayon tweeds. The operation was tiny, but, says Rudi, "for the first time, I could do what I wanted to do." Says Bass: "It was really a wild line, like a car with wings. Sometimes I thought I was committing suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...small that Chief Printer Anthony Allen "won't let anyone stay in there more than a quarter-hour." Corrugated iron roofing stift hides crumbling wreckage untouched since Nazi bombardiers blitzed London 27 years ago. To the delight of its readers, the Times recently discovered that "a race of wild cats" lives, loves and dies in the basement ventilating shafts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: LIBRARIES: London's Surfeit of Riches | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...than 3,500 m.p.h., America's needle-nosed X-15 barely ruffles the underskirts of space. U.S. and Soviet astronauts have ventured far higher, faster and for longer flights. But for Air Force Major Michael J. Adams, 37, riding the stub-winged X-15 rocket ship on its wild ten-minute flights beyond the atmosphere and back presented a greater challenge. He too had been chosen as an astronaut. Repeated slippage of the Manned Orbit ing Laboratory program left him impatient to get off the ground, and he asked to fly the X15 instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Over the Top | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens. The slacked or shorted, basketed, identical Food gathering flocks Are selves I overlook...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

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