Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflation which in the last year has increased the housewife's food bills by 30%. A rise in the price of bread, the government feared, would be just the psychological spark required to set off a universal demand for wage increases that would change creeping inflation into a wild sprint...
...fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls' "Teacher of Righteousness," who said Allegro on the basis of guess work, was also crucified. Allegro's new book prudently plays down this wild surmise. But together with a vivid account of the discoveries, Allegro gives nonscholarly readers plenty of speculation to chew on, if not necessarily to swallow...
...show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England: Mr. Randolph Churchill." After wild applause, Master of Ceremonies Hal March moved in: Hal: What do you do for a living...
Randy (triumphantly): SANDWICH! (wild applause...
...accomplished, J.D.R. Jr. was driven seven miles back along state Route 3 in his Cadillac limousine to The Eyrie, his gabled, secluded 50-room summer home on a wooded granite ridge 500 yds. back from the slate-grey Atlantic. From the car, his keen eyes swept a faraway view-wild mountains and neat harbors and white-sailed yachts sparkling-then dwelt more closely upon the prim lanes and green lawns that please his sense of economy and precision...