Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...codes and all, was raised intact and gleaned. But with the story beginning to leak out, it was decided to make one final effort to deceive the Soviets on the extent of the coup by floating a version of only partial success. The last theory goes off into the wild blue yonder, suggesting that raising a Soviet submarine was not Jennifer's mission at all, but the supreme cover for a secret mission as yet safely secure...
...Korean War vintage await collection by the scrap dealers who bought them. The dealers do not have far to travel. MASDC is ringed with scrap contractors' furnaces, where the planes are broken down and the aluminum from them smelted on the spot. The pride of yesterday's wild blue yonder becomes tomorrow's beer cans...
...classic memoir, Shooting an Elephant, Orwell recalls the morning a behemoth ran wild and stomped a coolie. The animal might have been saved, but the psychology of the moment demanded a kill. "Here was I," recalled the ex-official, "the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed...
...guilty to having made gifts of $100,000 to Nixon, $15,000 to Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills and $10,000 to Washington Senator Henry Jackson. A federal court imposed fines of $5,000 on Gulf and $1,000 on the company's Washington-based vice president, Claude C. Wild Jr. Now SEC investigators state that from 1960 to 1973 Gulf and Wild funneled no less than $10 million into political activities, a "substantial portion" of which was spent illegally. Gulf appears to have been the largest illegal contributor, far surpassing second-place Phillips Petroleum, which was charged with doling...
Suicide Note. In a Washington, B.C., federal court, the SEC charged Gulf and Wild with violating the agency's full-disclosure regulations. A specific complaint: the company failed to include in its proxy statements and annual reports the fact that it had "created a secret fund of corporate monies for the making of unlawful political contributions and other purposes." The SEC also charged that Gulfs balance sheets were understated because they failed to reflect the slush fund's value. Gulf signed a consent decree in which it agreed not to sin in the future. But Wild, who resigned...