Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rafting down rivers, they include elaborate re-creations of Civil War battles; tractor "pulls," in which contestants vie in hauling 30,000-lb. loads over a 300-ft. course; "plant digs," organized by state forestry commissions and environmentalist groups, in which families are encouraged to rescue trees, shrubs and wild flowers from soon-to-be-bulldozed sites; hunting Indian arrowheads and searching for old bottles (two of Jimmy Carter's favorite decompression pastimes) or turtle eggs...
...Frenchmen marched ashore to reincarnate such classic dishes as bouillabaisse, which is a culinary cousin of gumbo, a permissive potpourri that can include chicken, turkey, ham, crab, oyster, shrimp or anything else on hand. While New Englanders learned-belatedly-to raise beef and sheep, Southerners derived sustenance from the wild game and pigs and chickens that were raised almost as members of the family...
...voted unanimously to incorporate the 26-mile stretch of the New River in Ashe and Alleghany counties into the state's scenic river system and turn it into a park. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Kleppe agreed to take the same section into the eight-year-old National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, which also includes streams like Georgia's spectacular Chattooga, the setting for James Dickey's novel Deliverance. North Carolina's Sam Ervin lent the campaign his Old Testament eloquence. "Let us not dam the New River," he said. "I use the word...
Judy economizes wherever she can. The family's grocery bill averages a mere $25 a month. "We never buy meat," she explains. "LG hunts deer, squirrels and wild rabbits I make everything I can: butter, buttermilk, cream, preserves catsup and applesauce. We have all the fresh vegetables we want...
ADVENTURE as a category looks upward. Two shows celebrate the wild blue yonder. Spencer's Pilots (CBS) records the adventures of two young pilots who work for an independent aviation company; against ABC's Donny and Marie and NBC's Sanford and Son, they may never get it off the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) expands the feats of scrappy Pappy Boyington, the celebrated World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot, in Dirty Dozen fashion...