Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What prompted his observation was a charge by left-wing Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn that membership in the Common Market had already cost Britain 500,000 jobs, about half the current unemployment. This fanciful statistic (simplistically based on Britain's trade deficit) was only one of the wild "facts" that flew to and fro as Britain prepared to vote this week on whether to remain in the Common Market. Pro-European zealots hinted ominously that a no vote would benefit the Communists. Anti-Europeans countered by charging that the American CIA, which helped to finance some European-unity...
Died. Rupert Fothergill, 62, Rhodesian game ranger who headed "Operation Noah," a five-year (1959-63) rescue effort that saved more than 6,000 warthogs, monkeys, snakes, lions, elephants, rhinos and other wild beasts from the rising waters of a man-made lake behind the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Rhodesia...
Mockery in Arms by James Aldridge (Little, Brown; $7.95) is the only book of the lot that succeeds as a novel and not simply as a page turner. The author is fascinated by the wild, squabbling, Kurdish people of Iran, Iraq and Turkey, and their struggle for independence. A discovery of natural gas and oil in Kurdish territory seems a likely source of financing for the Kurds, but when they try to buy arms with the money officially paid for exploitation rights, the funds disappear into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help...
...operas. The author is an Israeli billed as a ";former undercover agent." The cover of the Kuwait book, which is about an attack on a Black September training camp, exactly describes the product: "Timebomb excitement! Nonstop action! The crack Israeli Secret Service v. the International Sky Terrorists." These two wild Easterns are part of an Arvay series. At least three more such thunderations are threatened in fiscal...
...ceremonies. A helicopter bombarded the Scouts with 15,000 fortune cookies containing quiz questions. Possibly the most shocking deviation from tradition was a Magic Forest Electronic Nature Trail event. The old nature walk was replaced by a marked course, along which cassette tape recorders emitted sounds of the wild. Said Campex-West's Michael: "It's about like Disneyland...