Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screamed of "bloody civil war" in the tiny contained nation, San Marino's own partisans were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then sent a couple of thousand police to set up a blockade on all roads leading into the embattled republic, in the hope of starving out the Communists ("Italy will not send her tanks into San Marino," proclaimed Italy...
...wife's comes to stay in the house, lashes back at him, and rouses the put-upon pregnant wife to give him the gate. But after the wife leaves Jimmy's bed and ironing board, her friend suddenly takes over both. At the end, despite her being wild about the brute, the friend clears out from a sense of guilt, while the wife, who has had a miscarriage, pleads with him to take her back...
...searingly candid chronicle of what she permitted herself (very nearly everything) in the first year following Thomas' death in Manhattan in 1953. Leftover Life to Kill will shock and infuriate some readers, make passionate partisans of others. The book's most remarkable quality is not its wild, keening dirge for the dead poet, but its revelation of the Dionysian personality and singing, Celtic eloquence of Irish-born Caitlin Thomas...
...What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" So the U.S. might well ask (with Keats) at the alarming sound that was heard in the land last week. The same sort of sound had rent the air as General Washington was being pushed out of Brooklyn, as Napoleon went down at Waterloo, as the British in Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band...
...their heels, majestically slow, come 28 pipers and twelve drummers in a stunning rendition of standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...