Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benny Meyers had few friends. Gimlet-eyed and sharp-tongued, Benny was not interested in the romance of flying. While other officers spun yarns of the wild blue yonder, Benny studied stock reports. He was murderously good at poker, insisted on high stakes that sometimes ran to $3,000 pots. For an Army officer, he seemed unusually wealthy. He liked to flash $100 bills, recently bought a big, colonial house on Long Island...
There are two crack halfbacks on Michigan's unbeaten team, which ran wild last week against Wisconsin (40 to 6) to win the Big Nine Championship and a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Bump Elliott is good on both offense and defense, but trigger-armed Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), a specialist, is more spectacular. The only trouble with a backfield made up of the nation's four most touted backfield stars-Lujack, Conerly, Walker and Chappuis-is that there isn't a fullback among them...
...Kistiakowsky, L. M. Lyons, D. C. McKay, E. S. Mason, K. F. Mather, S. E. Morison, T. Parsons, G. E. Perkins, P. J. Sachs, A. M. Schlesinger, A. M. Schlesinger, Jr., W. A. Seavy, T. Spencer, O. M. W. Sprague, I. A. Richards, S. A. Stouffer, P. S. Wild...
This fall the North American duck population, which has gone down steadily for three years, is down to about 110 million.† In alarm, some states imposed a midseason holiday on hunting (in Oregon, the first half of the season ended last week). The U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service cut the daily limit of ducks per hunter from ten to seven-and now to four. But at some U.S. duck-hunting spots last week, there were not four ducks to be seen, much less shot...
...Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs. (Like all good bourgeois, the Moorhouses reject the wild delights of love for the solid comforts of money and status...