Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ward took the next kickoff all the way, dancing down the right sideline for 69 yards. Vern Loucks converted again, to make it 21-7. The Yale line continued to push Harvard around, and Botsford, badly rushed, threw a wild pass that Ackerman intercepted on the 35. Yale scored in six plays, with Ackerman taking a 13 yard pass alone on the six and running over. Vern Loucks' conversion made it 28-7 at the half...
...remain should be thankful, while we eat turkeys that were sold at a supermarket in little frozen bundles. We sit in our rooms, where once the wild gobblers stalked wild berries and where wild Indians stalked early Americans...
...Navy: last December the Seamaster's sister ship and prototype also exploded on a test flight and plunged into Chesapeake Bay. Reason for the first crash, in which all four crewmen were killed: malfunction of the tail-control surfaces that forced the sea-jet into a wild loop while flying close to the speed of sound...
Judgment Day. But the press also gave Lincoln staunch supporters, e.g., the Chicago Tribune and the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and some memorable reporting, such as the Commercial's description of the elation in Chicago at Lincoln's first nomination: "The city was wild with delight. The 'Old Abe' men formed processions and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were poured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns were fired from the top of Tremont House...
...Heart Knows ... In Wahoo, Neb., when his wife spotted a wild blue goose flying by their house. Bill Behrens honked hopefully at it, found the bird liked his voice, held it in conversation while his wife got his shotgun, heeded her warning against hunting inside city limits, got in his car, kept honking as he drove slowly into open country, got out, honked again, blitzed the beguiled goose...