Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELMER G. STILL Livermore, Calif. ¶Although penguins remain unreconstructed Southerners, there is no reason why they should not be happy in the Arctic; gourmets have not commented on the cooked product, but explorers, suffering strictly from hunger, report that it tastes like something between beef and wild duck cooked with stale fish and served with cod-liver...
...aloof from the Democratic professionals and made enemies in the process ("There are something like 30,000 Democratic Club workers," says a top California party leader, "and at least half of them are just waiting for Brown to make his first mistake. Then they're going to run wild"); 3) even to control the California delegation as a favorite-son candidate, Brown may have to fight Senator-elect Clair Engle and National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, both longtime Adlai Stevenson rooters, and neither very fond of Pat Brown...
Indeed, in the wild scramble for the precious Democratic nomination in 1960, The Man Who could be almost anybody except Dick Nixon. And as the days pass and the tension grows, the candidates themselves will be moving to the front and hurling themselves into active battle. When that happens, the U.S. voter is in for a wonderfully exciting time-if his eardrums hold out. And at that delirious moment when the hush falls on Convention Hall, and Sam Rayburn introduces the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the Democrats can only hope that someone has survived to come...
Melanesian tom-toms, Benin bronzes, a footstool in the shape of a kneeling woman, a dog-shaped bowl, and African, American Indian and South Sea Island idols by the score comprised a wild little dream world within the Fine Arts' staid galleries of European pictures. Most exciting finds were the small gold ornaments from pre-Columbian
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned...