Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shards of glass; the left breast of Nasser's uniform grew dark with a stain that looked like blood, but still Nasser stood, thrusting aside friendly hands that tried to pull him down out of danger. Then he stepped back to the microphone and in a hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again: "Oh, free men, let everybody stay in his place." Through the babble of panic rising around him, he bellowed: "My blood is for you. My life is for you." With a roar the crowd seized and pummeled the would-be assassin...
...crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...
...finally admitted that he is engaged to marry pretty Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, stepdaughter of a local Mediterranean fisherman. But that was about all the information the reporters got that they might depend on-for Brando, in his own unpredictable way, frequently likes to play the merry wild goose. Like lovers in a gay French film, the couple first talked about the romance that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper in their wildest moments had predicted. Josane, who used to pose for the late Moise Kisling, famed painter of sensuous nudes, said she met Marlon in New York last February...
Sturdy Swedes. Covering such a course in a slow walk would be a trial for the average athlete. Sturdy Scandinavians turn the wild cross-country scrambles into punishing foot races. Known officially as "orienteering," the sport dates back to 1918 when the first Swedish club was formed to hold formal competitions. Unofficially, historians trace the race's origins across 1,000 years to a time when Scandinavian sentries guarded long lonely frontiers. Then, long-winded runners were the only means of communication with threatened inland settlements...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's patient cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the old Wild West was really wild (TIME...