Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse. And the claim is advanced, more often each passing year, that since a man's room is his castle, the College has no concern for what goes on there...
...innocent-looking toadstool with a greenish cap known as Amanita phalloides,* whose tender meat can cause violent abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, liver damage, intense thirst, convulsions, delirium, and death in from five to ten days. Concerned, Paris officials dispatched special champignon sherlocks to inspect incoming truckloads of wild mushrooms at the central market, and the Pasteur Institute stepped up shipments of an antitoxin serum...
...savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly on his stilts...
...quieter tragedies of unwanted pregnancies cannot be prevented by manipulating parietal hours. Unlike wild parties, such occasional incidents will happen in the Houses no matter what restriction, short of total elimination of parietal hours, is imposed, But the Deans are simply wrong in thinking that most Harvard students use their rooms during parietal hours for sexual intercourse. They...
...designed to prevent "pernicious political activities" in national campaigns; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque. The Hatch Acts limit annual party expenditures to $3,000,000, forbid all save top-level federal employees from politicking or being dunned for contributions. But campaign committees find ways to evade the ceiling, and wild horses cannot stop every good man, civil servant or no, from coming to the aid of his party...