Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notably unimpressed with the "rock-bottom" request. He was fairly certain, in fact, that his committee would sanction a figure "something under" last year's actual appropriation of $3.9 billion. Second, General Clay himself, after weeks of haunting Mr. Bell's office and House hearing rooms, began to run wild. He had examined the President's apparent humiliation to his committee's wishes, and had discovered that two-thirds of the White House education was a "paper cut" of unobligated funds rather than a reflection of his recommendations. The General was now prepared to recommend $300 million more in cuts...
Before this comedy Northeastern pitcher Dick McPherson had commenced the inning with a 360 ft. home-run, a wild pitch had set-up a second run, and Harvard pitcher Dick Garibaldi, who took the loss, had walked in another...
...West Was Won. This Cinerama epic goes wild and woolly with a wagonload of stars and a thousand thundering buffaloes that threaten to shake the balcony loose from its moorings...
Dial 219-61. The Grand Duchy today is a sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry...
...reserve of a section man when he discusses his conception of the Senate. "I don't know of any better system than the present one, because it permits the Senators to be relaxed in their relations with each other." The only alternative, the merit system, "would set off a wild kind of infighting for positions. Politicians are naturally a highly competitive breed." McGovern, despite his academic background, is prepared to take the system as it is, and his discomfort at not being able to think of a better system is not very acute...