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Word: wilding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head and wrenched his neck when his small plane hit an air pocket, and had to spend three precious days recuperating, he easily made up the lost time. For his part, the normally couth and courteous Buckley turned tiger, depicting Moynihan as a fuzzy-minded liberal professor whose wild spending schemes would cost wage-earning families of four $63 a week in new taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From an Irish Pat to a Dixy Lee | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

With 15 minutes remaining in the season, Harvard began at its own 27 and gave signs of things to come. Two unsuccessful runs were followed by a wild Kubacki aerial that overshot Chris Doherty by ten yards and a Scott Coolidge squip set the Elis up at their...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: ELIS STOP CRIMSON, 21-7 | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

Last year, my father drove to New Haven and met me there for the game. He confessed at the start that because of his father, and his childhood memories of attending Yale games in the Bowl (I think the last he remembers featured Albie Booth running wild against a horde of West Point plebes), that he would root for Yale. Chance, or luck, however, placed a particulalry vitriolic Yale fan behind us who insisted on labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: It's a Family Affair | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Records Made To Be Kept | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...look closely enough on the Harvard sideline, you'll see Fred Cordova, still in search of his, and Bob Peabody, who, by his wild gesticulations, will let you know that he, too, has reached his goal, albeit one of a different sort...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: White sweats, splinters, high hopes | 11/12/1976 | See Source »

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