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Word: wildness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golding read two widely different descriptions of water from his book, Lord of the Flies, and commented that "it was a wild, whirling book, and has a wild, whirling style," not necessarily found in his other works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Golding Says Author's Style Will Change With Subject Matter | 2/21/1963 | See Source »

Desperate to stop the wild Penn scoring surge, Coach Floyd Wilson switched to a man-to-man defense for the first time this season in the second half. Unhappily it proved of little use, as Penn rank its first 14 points of the second half without missing a shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Trounce Crimson By Lopsided 78-53 Margin | 2/18/1963 | See Source »

...mercenaries and African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Trouble Brewing | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Woody Allen is a new, 27-year-old comedian whose monologues tumble with wild improbabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: His Own Boswell | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

While in Florence Pusey may attend concerts at the world famous Maggio Musicale and watch the Giuco di Calcio, a wild and bruising soccer game played in Medieval costumes. The Calcio dates back to the Middle Ages and has attracted tourists to the city on the Arno for centuries...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Pusey to Visit Florence in May; City Will Honor Lowell, University | 2/7/1963 | See Source »

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