Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young archeologist described the area as "semi-wild." He added, "The insects were the worst bother. Although the Montana is reputedly crawling with poisonous snakes, I saw only...
...that all the young men would be drafted into the Foreign Legion, and even that France was a Stalinist country and that they were destined for concentration camps. Three weeks ago, under pressure of such rumors, 300 Hungarians poured out of a refugee camp at Valdahon and made a wild scramble for the Swiss border 30 miles away, returned only when the Swiss refused to admit them...
...Loren C. Eiseley of the University of Pennsylvania added that Neanderthal man did not have fangs or other wild-animal features. These unappealing characteristics were given to him by heavy-handed reconstructors. He could not have been as brutish as his detractors say. His face and skull certainly had a somewhat apelike cast, but his brain was as big as that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave...
...three innings, that July night in 1936, righthanded Bob Feller faced nine Cardinals and struck out eight. He had as much control, one sportswriter reported, as a drunken swallow-one wild pitch shattered a grandstand chair. But the Cleveland Indians knew they had a natural. In August of that year Feller made his first official start. He fanned 15 St. Louis Browns, just one short of Rube Waddell's record for a single game...
...burned, a quiet wick in a wild night, Loving what lie beheld and will behold...