Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luckey Strike. The announcement, which many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
Potter notes: "No matter how wild Lifeman's quiet insertion may be, it is enough to create a pause, even a tiny sensation . . . To break the winning vein, break the flow...
John Philip Emerson '50 of Winthrop House received two awards of $100 each for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and for a translation into Latin of a passage from John Ruskin's "The Crown of Wild Olive...
Back from the wild blue yonder, thousands of veterans jumped into the air transport business after the war. All they needed to set themselves up as irregular nonscheduled airlines was a little capital, some flying know-how, and one or more surplus planes, which the War Assets Administration was eager to sell them cheap. Some of them crashed, and some went broke. But about no nonscheduled lines have been doing well enough with cargo and air-coach services to throw a scare into the big, scheduled airlines...
Openly flouting the American way of life and sedate womanhood, the wild eyed young ladies of Wellosley sprinted down a hillside pushing hoops before them at 7:15 a.m. Saturday in obvious preparation for some future May Day, when they might perform more important tasks...