Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BALLOU. Wild western heroics are trampled into horselaughs by Jane Fonda as a schoolmarm turned outlaw queen and Lee Marvin, doubly hilarious as a couple of no-good gunfighters, one her friend...
...whole country seemed to be running! Thousands and tens of thousands of wild horses running in immense herds as far as the eye or telescope could sweep the horizon. Time and again immense masses of mustangs, circling and circling around us, charging and threatening to rush over us, would wheel from our yelling and firing and go thundering away...
...late as 1847, when this scene was witnessed, the mustang myriads that wandered the great plains were one of the principal natural resources of the wild West. Broken to the saddle, harnessed to the plow, they became an instrument of manifest destiny, the brute force that bore forward the men who won the West. In this classic compendium of horse lore, republished for the first time since 1940, a generation obsessed with horsepower is vividly reminded of the power of the horse...
...been doing well in Dunedin Hospital after a week on an external pacemaker. The surgeons were installing an internal model that was designed to work indefinitely, but when they cut into the patient's heart sac to put an electrode in the heart muscle, the external pacemaker went wild, and the heart twitched ineffectively. The doctors traced the trouble to high-frequency interference from the diathermy machine that powered the electric scalpel they were using. This man and another who had a similar experience both recovered, but the surgeons were puzzled and worried, so they...
Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know...