Word: wildly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the earth cracks open to dismantle a city, then metaphysical questions come boiling up. What would Muir learn? What does the cataclysm have to teach? That the earth retains its genius for the wild surprise? Or that some profound principle of disorder and annihilating wrath has been set loose in the world...
...have built a greenhouse, a human creation," he writes, "where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden...
This is not a wild caricature of prevailing liberal opinion. Liberal publications took obvious delight in exposing the falsehoods and hyperbole in Reagan's pronouncements. Mother Jones magazine even offered Reagan's Reign of Error as a subscription premium. Liberals assumed that if only people knew the facts, they would reject Reagan's simplistic demagoguery and turn to the enlightened liberal truth...
...examination of the carcasses has turned up no unusual concentrations of toxic substances in the pelicans. One wild theory is that fishermen may have poisoned the birds so that fewer of the lake's trout will be eaten by them. Wildlife biologists scoff at such speculation, and city water officials insist that there is nothing in the water to harm humans. But until the Great White Pelican Mystery is solved, worry and rumor, unlike the birds, seem certain to thrive...
...these high grades for the President do not translate into wild enthusiasm for his Administration. Just 27% said they approve of Bush's performance "strongly," and half approve "only somewhat." While 49% credit Bush with taking charge on major issues, 40% think he merely talks about them. Two-thirds think Bush has "pretty much followed" Ronald Reagan's path, vs. one-quarter who believe he has "brought real change." The desire for new approaches found by opinion surveys last year seems to have receded...