Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitch get by him, to allow Simourian to tally the fourth run of the frame. The fifth inning was the first and only time the Crimson threatened. In the first, the varsity scored as unearned run on a walk to Hoffman, a sacrifice, a stolen base, and a wild throw into left by Massa...
Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier," whose ballad, television series, and coonskin caps have made him the new idol of America's children, was actually a vain political stooge in real life, two College professors agreed yesterday...
...King of the Wild Frontier's real story, according to Miller and Schlesinger, is different from the words of the ballad and the Times. Davy, it seems, was an ordinary soldier in Tennessee when the Whig Party, defeated by President Jackson, decided that it, too, needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people...
...Constitutional amendment. Since many members of both parties have realized the utility of an omnibus appropriations bill, it is highly likely that Congress will pass the Consolidated General Appropriations Bill. But the legislature must realize that an omnibus bill without an item veto would mean an unbridled budget, running wild under the goadings of pressure groups that won't stop prodding...
...port wing. The plane broke into three pieces when it hit the sea. This sounded more like a common accident than sabotage. In their first broadcast, long before any survivors had been picked up, the Communists had said that the plane exploded in mid-air-the same kind of wild report that crash investigators on the world's airlines encounter after most crackups. But Peking, which knows a propaganda windfall when it sees one, grabbed its chance, without even waiting for the facts to be established...