Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow flipped open a flip-top box of Marlboros, offering the 20 carefully rolled joints inside it to a reporter. "Here, take one. It's free. We've got at least 2000 joints out here. Some guys are just going around waving big bags of grass. Wild, you know...
...first," recalls one teacher, "he was a wild boy. He threw his desk around sometimes. But then he settled down. He's really sweet, with a natural, outgoing personality." So outgoing that by the ninth grade he was elected president of his class, of the student council, and was earning straight...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...Wild fowl have been even more prolific. Although hunters bagged 3,000,000 mourning doves in California last year, the birds now number 20 million, up 50% in 50 years. Even the wild turkey, wariest of all game birds-and therefore one of the first harmed by the shrinking wilderness-is making a comeback: Pennsylvania's turkey flock alone is estimated...
Gone are the days when the opprobrium of the national press was focused on Harvard. Four years ago the Record American could run as their lead story: "Harvard Bares Wild Parties, Dean's Report Fears Sex Scandal." Today the headlines are about Haight-Ashbury...