Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent an hour and a half in his office and then went to the practice tee with Pro Ed Dudley. The President had played only once since he left Denver Oct. 15, and his game had deteriorated. When his foursome teed off, Ike's drives were often wild, his putting sour. He was disgusted and threatened, like any Sunday duffer, to abandon the game forever. Montgomery used to be a golfer, but he injured a vertebra in a plane accident after the war, and has given up the sport. He followed the foursome in an electric scooter...
...body was found in a dense thicket some five miles from the lonely farm on which his wife was strangled to death by Mau Mau six weeks ago. Leakey had been tortured, buried alive and left in a shallow grave to become the prey of hyenas and wild dogs. Oddly enough, his murder was regarded in Kenya as further evidence of the Mau Mau's declining fortunes. The captured Kikuyu witchwoman who led police to Leakey's grave admitted that he had been made a human sacrifice in the hopes that his death would bring renewed good luck...
...Brothers, self-professed keepers of the Moslem tradition, to explain precisely certain passages of the Koran. When they faltered, he sneered: "You call yourselves soldiers of God!" Under his searing tongue, the accused abjectly passed the buck to one another. Mahmoud Abdul Latif, the little tinsmith who fired eight wild shots at Nasser in Alexandria a month ago, burst into tears and sobbed that he was but a dupe led on by clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef Talaat stood...
...were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date: the wild bells would now ring out some time this month...
...John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, found the censure vote "very encouraging and an affirmation of the dignity of the Senate." Wild said that the McCarthy methods, such as "preying on mass hysteria," have thus been labeled "definitely bad" by the action of the Senate...