Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy...
...century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . . . a wild, irresponsible kid," he told the Illinois State Parole Board. "I feel that in 25 years I have matured considerably . . . I am not a kid any more." The board reserved decision...
...conference is under the auspices of the Graduate Student's Committee for World Peace, whose temporary chairman is Eugene Sparrow 2Dv. The Committee was established at the bull session, and has been recognized by Dean Wild's office, publicity director Max Blue-stone Sp explained last night...
Among the sponsors of the peace conference are: F.O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature; L. A. Richards, University Professor; John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy; John Ciardl, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Charles W. Duhig '29, Graduate Secretary of Brooks House; and Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond of Hillel House...
Thompson scored the sixth Crimson run in the home half of the sixth with a triple, his second hit, and a wild pitch, but the Purple had already piled up eight tallies and added single runs in the seventh and eighth...