Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the Rhine in Germany, farmers were slaughtering prized cattle for lack of fodder; in the Hesse area alone, drought damage was estimated at more than $400 million. West German Autobahnen buckled in the fierce sun. In Frankfurt, citizens going wild in the heat piled into public swimming pools in such numbers that the facilities had to shut down shortly after opening each day. Breweries worked overtime to quench the increased demand for beer-and the resulting overconsumption led to more brawls than usual among overheated drinkers. In Italy, some seaside resorts started rationing water...
...Tories during and after the revolt, has contributed a $1.1 million book of photographs, Between Friends, of the 40-mile zone that straddles the world's longest undefended border. Despite the current bristling state of anti-American nationalism in Canada, the country's ultimate summer festivity, the wild, woolly Calgary Stampede, has this year been dedicated to the Bicentennial...
...answer is: Of course. In the basic necessities, America is more self-sufficient than any European country. Advocates of independence point out that 95 percent of the more than 2.5 million Colonists are farmers, and that besides the produce they themselves grow, they can depend on an abundance of wild game and fish. The average American, unlike his counterpart in England, builds his own house?right down to finishing the nails?and he has to go no farther than his wife to obtain his clothes...
What is in the wilderness that lies beyond the Colonies? One of the relatively few men who know the details is Naturalist William Bartram, 37. For the past three years he has been traveling through wild country from the Carolinas to West Florida. The son of John Bartram, the famous Philadelphia botanist, William recently passed through Fort Charlotte, South Carolina, and showed a TIME correspondent some travel journals that he has been keeping...
...between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold, and he seemed not insensible of the splendid appearance he made...