Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break for the Crimson came in the bottom of the seventh on McMellen's four-run error. With one out, Repetto singled to left, taking second when Tom Bergantino was hit by a pitched ball. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch, and Cleary fouled out. Simourian was purposely passed to load the bases, and McMellen lost Hasting's drive for an error and four runs, making the score...
...Calcutta, where thrifty Bengalis ran wild in 1953 over a ⅓cent rise in streetcar fares, mobs rioted around the post offices when it was discovered that the price of stamps would be rounded off in favor of the government. In industrial Kanpur, bus service was tied up for hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya...
...West. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, he remarked, is housed in an "old, dirty, worm-eaten, leaky building," dependent upon artists from West Germany, Italy and France. Furthermore, "all those insane, nervous 'boogie woogies' and 'rock 'n' roll' are like some kind of wild cavemen's orgies...
This is not to say that there was no connection between the Essene community at Qumran and the first Christians. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness near Qumran at a time when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other...
...Wild Blue Pegasus. In San Antonio, Lackland Air Force Base trainees jumped at the chance to spend ten of the required 28 hours of calisthenics either on horseback or roller skating to organ music at an air-conditioned rink...