Word: wildly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high art. The weekend festival is a kind of Woodstock for the Armageddon set. In "Emergency Tools and Weapons," Charles Kehrberg of Hillsdale, Mich., explains how to fumigate stored food grains (add dry ice). In "Food: Preparation, Production, Preservation," Ruth Anthony of Kansas City, Kans., talks about subsisting on wild plants (eat only the tender inner leaves of dandelions, the leafy tips of purslane). In "Guns and Reloading," Curt Putnam of Kansas City, Mo., demonstrates the best way of refilling shotgun shell casings...
Stewart, 64, a liberal Republican, comes as close as any in the group to being an artful politician, but has not emerged as a leader. Stevens, 59, the newest Justice, is a probing questioner and an unpredictable vote; he is frequently called the court's ''wild card.'' He believes his role to be purely intellectual, not political...
...rushed to sell, trading volume soared to an unprecedented 16,410,030 shares,- the Dow tumbled another 31 points, to 230, and it was clear to almost everyone that something catastrophic had taken place. The Dow was down 151 points, or about 60%, from its September peak. When its wild plummet finally stopped in July 1932, the index was at 41, and the stocks it represented were worth around 12% of what they had been valued at in September 1929. All told, in three years investors lost more than $74 billion, which in terms of today's inflated dollars...
What is startling on Tusk is the wild melodic invention of Singer-Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who takes the band off into the ozone on tunes like Not That Funny and I Know I'm Not Wrong...
...sparse plot, downright anemic; yet O'Morrison fleshes it out with the wondrous detail of bygone commonplaces. In this household, light comes from kerosene, refrigeration from an iceman, fruits and vegetables are preserved and the tele phone and vacuum cleaner are wild rumors. It is a simpler world but not a qui eter one. The women fuss and explode over trifles, then sing together in tranquilizing harmony...