Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Fry & Wild Fowl. After that, the screen was blank until 5 p.m., when NBC aired a children's hour called Playtime. An aggressively cheerful young woman, done up as a clown named Popit, ran the show (a picture tour of Italy, an object lesson in How to Make Your Beanie out of Felt, a first-rate marionette show). "Big Brother's" Small Fry Club, with movies, followed on Du Mont. Big Brother began with a pleasant animated cartoon called Cubby the Bear, ended with an inspirational short about a proper if improbable child who hung his clothes...
Communist strategists have continually attempted to create such dissatisfaction in this great nation, this "Arsenal of Democracy," up to now by inciting race riots and wild-cat strikes. This philosophy that unrest makes a good breeding-ground for the growth of the Communist Party has succeeded to a large extent in eastern Europe, and to a smaller degree here in the United States...
Murderer Orville Turley, 54, a paretic, and Kidnaper Richard Heilman, 24, were trapped in a trailer. "Come on in and get us," snarled Turley. A blast of shots killed him, wounded Heilman. Killer A. B. Tolley, 21, was shot and captured after a wild exchange of gunfire...
Great Mystic Purpose. Many readers are likely to resent Author St. John's fervent acceptance of New Yugoslavia. They will also resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers...
...full-size, full-speed basketball the yearlings need a fast breaking offense. Berg worked on under-the-basket plays for the Boston College battle but tenseness on their first acquaintance with the Garden and a big audience slowed their shooting and passing. The glass backboards were seldom threatened by wild Crimson shooting. Breaks in the Eagle defense closed before the yardlings could capitalize on them...