Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...band of Indians attacked the mission at San Diego and killed three settlers. At the Bay of San Francisco, however, Missionary Father Francisco Paldu reports that the colonists so far have been "well received by all the heathen whom we met. They brought their gifts of mussels and wild seeds, which were reciprocated with beads... And they were astonished at the cattle, which they had never seen before." Apparently it is chiefly the Spaniards' missionary fervor that drives them into these wilds, for there is no gold in California, and by most accounts it is a rough and desolate...
Because of widespread public alarm, New York gossips concocted wild stories of a Tory plot to kidnap or murder Washington-700 men were supposedly involved, and it was reported that the general narrowly escaped death. Most of these rumors are nonsense, but the facts are disturbing enough...
...flight to West Germany for a meeting with Secretary of State Kissinger, the racial tensions that seethe just beneath the surface of South African life exploded in Soweto, a ramshackle, overcrowded satellite town for blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In three bitter days and nights of wild rioting and skirmishes between club-wielding, stone-throwing blacks and heavily armed police, at least 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured; only a handful of the victims were white. The turmoil spread to at least seven other segregated black townships surrounding South Africa's largest industrial...
...Rushmore's great granite faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. A local menu offers buffalo burgers, which are indifferently appreciated until they see a herd of live buffalo in Custer State Park. Tour Guide Twain also takes his friends to Dead wood, the old cowboy town where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane did things together that went unrecorded in children's schoolbooks. The main street is largely a series of tourist traps, but the three are intrigued by a helicopter lifting felled trees out of a nearby forest...
Twain is neither. He is impatient to visit the region where he lived and labored a century ago. The travelers drive north along the wild California coast at Big Sur and into San Francisco?charmingly provincial still, studiously cosmopolitan. Even Twain is impressed with that great sculpture in steel, the Golden Gate Bridge. People, he is told, come from miles around just to jump from it, but these visitors prefer to enjoy the scene from the hills immediately northwest of the span...