Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followed hard on the heels of the drug scandal, and after a lengthy debate over parietal hours within the University community, the Harvard sex scandal (as told by the Record American) found its way onto front pages across the country. Dean Monro's latter about "wild parties and sexual intercourse" soon ranked for readership with Peyton Place. Harvard undergraduates bought out the Square newsstands to read about the parties they were supposed to be attending...
...audience on Nairobi's Harambee Avenue broke into wild cheers, and beside Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga stared glumly ahead...
...then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention was, and the bull had buried his head in her lap, like a wild, tormented lover, before her expression changed. One of his horns sank until it pierced her heart, and the other curved around her side and held her in an unbreakable grip. She continued to stare straight ahead with the look of a person whose sight has been suddenly restored but who finds...
...girl suggested to her swain that they spend the evening at a local amusement park. "Oh come off it." He replied. "You know that whenever you go on those wild rides you wet your pants and embarrass me." "Honestly," she pleaded. "I won't this time. I'll take care." At length the swain consented and the pair enjoyed a pleasant time on a number of the tamer riders. Then the girl urged that they try the terrifying loop-de-loop, the fastest swirling ride in the park. With some trepidation, her date agreed. After several breathtaking circular ascents their...
Needless to say, none of the contributors of the Review indulges himself in such irresponsible speculation. Though determinism of this sort is no more than a wild dream, I can find nothing in the magazine that rules it out as a logical possibility. And it is this deterministic spectre which makes the subject so fascinating and also so appropriate for a journal of "contemporary affairs...