Word: wildest
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What possesses people, I wondered, to think in their wildest dreams that a thousand-some readers care in the slightest about their their leisure time. Still, it didn't seem right to be indignant. The comments had struck a raw nerve...
...continued, bands such as Hypnotic Clambake, Rescue Squad and Wildest Dreams played at various stations...
...landed on the deck, breaking both arms. Six months later, in 1988, Nelson Diebel won his first national title. Later he tattooed the Olympic rings on his hip and arrived at the '89 nationals with a double Mohawk -- one side dyed black, the other white. "Nelson's the wildest, most accident-prone human being who ever lived," says his coach, Chris Martin. "But you can't beat his talent." During the U.S. Olympic trials last March, Diebel swam the second fastest 100-m breaststroke in history...
...without upsetting the enormous volunteer corps that got the Perot balloon off the ground. In addition, the gauzy notion of a bipartisan campaign, run jointly by a Democrat and a Republican, sounds better in theory than in practice. Rollins and Jordan, never before having teamed up even in their wildest dreams, may not agree instantly on the best approach, for example, to urban blacks or Southern evangelicals. And getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along with each other: Rollins met Perot only last weekend, and Jordan's relationship with the populist plutocrat predates Rollins' by only...
Democrats are expected to maintain control in the new Senate. But if the Democratic ticket runs third in the national election, its vice-presidential candidate would not be considered by the Senate, which must pick between the top two. The wildest scenario kicking around the Capitol envisions the Bush and Perot slates coming in first and second, the House deadlocking and Senate Democrats preventing action in their chamber. They could avoid an unpalatable choice between the G.O.P. and Perot's forces by refusing to provide the necessary quorum. In that most improbable event, the Speaker of the House (currently...