Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When last week's polling began, there seemed a very good chance that the regime of Sir Albert Margai might indeed be voted down. The Prime Minister, whose hulking size and frequent outbursts of temper have won him the nickname "Akpata"-a Mende word that means "our wild fat man"-had long been accused of widespread corruption. His refusal to answer the charges did nothing to improve his government's image, nor did his longstanding attempts to establish a one-party state. Last month, Sir Albert opened the election campaign by refusing to allow opposition candidates...
...possession of the U.S. in the Pacific. The U.S. acquired the 210-sq.-mi. island after the Spanish-American War, lost it to Japan during the chaotic week following Pearl Harbor, and regained it by a bloody amphibious assault in 1944. Ringed by coral reefs, its jungles studded with wild orchids and rusting Japanese tanks, Guam (pop. 76,500) is a melange of Chamorro, Spanish and Japanese stock, yet fully American in its attitudes...
...sometimes err. Neither the church nor the Pope can establish articles of faith. These must come from Scripture." Instead of offering him Biblical proof, Pope Leo X issued a bull demanding Luther's recanting-on pain of excommunication-that began: "Arise, O Lord, and judge thy cause. A wild boar has invaded thy vineyard...
...champion thanked his father and proceeded to send his best to "all my friends in Houston, my new home -- the Soul Brothers, Skip and Lee, and the Wild Man.' He also wished Dick Gregory luck in his campaign for mayor of Chicago...
...Adams House the symbolism is suitably accented. Whenever a character should chance to mention the wild duck, he does so in deeply serious tones. And when Hedvig, the Ekdals' daughter, talks about the duck and the dog which fetched it out of the water, she talks as if, yes, true insight is something known only to youth...