Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image of man-to-man conflict. The other was Arabia. On that exotic chessboard-as described by Lawrence and imagined by thousands of readers who would never go there-battle regained its heraldic quality. Despite the thirst, flies and scorching heat, "the march became rather splendid and barbaric ... the wild mass of twelve hundred bouncing camels of the bodyguard, packed as closely as they could move, the men in every variety of coloured clothes and the camels nearly as brilliant in their trappings. We filled the valley to its banks with our flashing stream." The cleanness of desert warfare...
...Lions appeared undaunted by the pitching change, adding another run-scoring single and finally a booming triple by Bauld (one and the same) finished off the scoring in the wild and wooly third...
Exeter jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first on four walks, an error, and a single. Harvard scraped together four runs in the second, aided by two walks, an error, and a wild pitch...
...Quakers, leaders in the EIBL with a 4-0 mark, did not have to break out their big bats in building up the lopsided early bulge. Crimson pitcher Jamie Werly dug his own grave with a slew of walks and wild pitches sandwiched around a few Pennsylvania hits, as Harvard dropped its first league game of the season...
...Werly pick-off throw to second then found its unkind way into the outfield, and the hometowners were in front, 2-0. Next on the agenda was a wild pitch by Werly, and the count went to 3-0. Two more walks later, Penn was on the verge of making it a first-inning blowout, but Werly wriggled free. Temporarily...