Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild Bill's Town...
...there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore the honor of Abilene's South Side through a classic two-hour fistfight against Wesley Merrifield, champion of the more prosperous North Side. The fight ended...
First among these is the public's general attitude. "Sky diving bears no relation to the wild shows put on by barn-stormers of the twenties and thirties. This is a controlled sport," Burnham said...
...Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed, nine persons wounded...
...editorial during last year's rough-and-tumble election campaign, The People denounced Randolph's "wild blatherings" and called him "ignorant," an "egregious failure," "that slightly comic son of our great statesman," and one of the "paid hacks" writing "biased accounts of the campaign...