Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition and legend, poverty-gnarled Indians who suddenly come into oil money-as in Oklahoma in the 1920s-throw it around in wild spending sprees, and the off-the-reservation Navajos have done their part to keep the legend alive. Near Farmington, N. Mex. last August, a Navajo family living on its own outside the reservation celebrated an oil-lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke...
...congressional investigation, where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard way to control his strength, who has had to beat down wild winds of temper, and learn that the law-in whose cold virtue he once sought escape from a world that used him cruelly-must be tempered by understanding...
Gourdin went wild. After winning the 100 in 10.2, he came back to broad jump 25 feet, 3 inches to become the first human being to clear the magic 25 foot mark, and there by he set a world record, a meet record, and a Harvard record which still stands in little jeopardy...
Botsford scored for the Crimson in the fifth on a walk, a sacrifice, a long fly ball, and a wild pitch to tie the game. Harvard returned the free run in the bottom of the fifth as Gordon Achilles singled, reached third on another base hit, and tallied on a passed ball...
...trouble in the fourth inning. He walked the first batter, who was subse-quently retired at second on a fielder's choice. But when the third batter laid a soft grounder on the first base side of the mound Repetto cut it off and his throw to second went wild, advancing runners to second and third...