Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire-insurance adjuster in Minnesota, I can see benefits of the wood stove [Dec. 5] to the homeowner and disaster to the small insurance companies. You wouldn't believe the wild ideas people have. Cheap little stoves that get red hot. Good stoves too near the walls-so the heat sets fire to the dwelling. Stovepipes plugged into old or too short chimneys. They all spell unwanted fire...
...season, from His and Her windmills ($16,000 each) at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas to 15-lb. boxes of Irish peat ($14.90), which one Rhode Islander is advertising as Yule fuel. This year one can even buy a turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food at a sitting...
E.A.T., a pricey Manhattan food specialty shop (with a branch in Troy, Mich.), flies in Arava melons ($4 each) from Israel, eight varieties of wild mushrooms ($8 to $15 per Ib.) from France and white truffles ($17.50 per oz.) from Italy. Such delicacies are instant sellouts, boosting E.A.T.'s gross 50% (to $1.5 million) over last year's total...
...hack who impudently called himself Bos; and a Penny Pickwick, not to mention all the stage piracies and adaptations. People named their cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work of letters before or since has ever aroused such wild and widespread enthusiasm. Barely past the age of twenty-five, Charles Dickens had become world-famous, beaten upon by a fierce limelight which never left him for the remainder of his life...
This will go down as The Night The Freshman Went Wild. Five goals by four different first year players highlighted a come-form-behind 7-6 triumph for the Harvard hockey team over a defenseless squad from the University of New Hampshire last night at Durham...