Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pickets met candidate Johnson in the lobby of a Dallas hotel. Several demonstraters jostled both him and Lady Bird, but the nominee declined police aid declaring, "the day hasn't come when me and my Lady can't walk through a Dallas hotel." More recently Ambassador Stevenson confronted Dallas' wild wooly right after a U. N. Day speech to the local United Nations Association. Leaving a standing ovation inside, he found several hundred pickets outside fresh from a "U. S. Day Rally", addressed by General Walker. Before reaching his car, Stevenson was struck by two pickets and spat upon...
APOLLINAIRE, by Francis Steegmuller. Self-appointed promoter of cubist painting and experimental poetry, this violent, rebellious poet-critic of pre-World War I Paris lived his own wild legend, which Steegmuller largely confirms with carefully researched fact...
...Perhaps the reason that Mr. Harvey called me "that ghastly woman" is that I protested indignantly when I learned he was going to play my lover in the movie Walk on the Wild Side. I had seen Mr. Harvey make love on the screen, which he does aloofly, as if he were a playing card-the jack of clubs. He lifts one knee defensively so that the heroine, whom he is supposed to adore, has to make a sudden flanking movement if she wishes to embrace him. Mr. Harvey whacks away at nearly all the heroines whom...
Slowly the banner of Africa's 35th new state unfurled to wild cries of "Uhuru!" and the explosion of fireworks. Minutes later, word reached the stadium that a team of climbers had reached the summit of Mount Kenya, planted the new flag and lit flares that illuminated the sacred mountain "like a fireball...
...neighboring Transjordan, he had looked for evidence of climatic change and found none. Instead he found evidence that the country had been fairly thickly settled during periods of political stability. After invaders swept through, its people turned back to the life of nomads and were dominated for centuries by wild tribes from the Arabian Desert. Then a new civilization took hold of the land again and repopulated it. If this happened in Trans-Jordan, he reasoned, it probably happened in the Negev...