Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate was set at 7%. By 1932 it had reached 25%. Then in 1932, beset by the fears and rancors of the Great Depression, the Congress upped the maximum to 63% in one wild thrust...
...Yale 5-4 for the Ivy crown and an undefeated season. It was the ninth ranked man on the squad, John Francis, who emerged as the hero of the match. With the team score tied at 4-4, Francis trailed 11-6 in his final game. While Yalies went wild in anticipation of victory, Francis rallied with nine straight points, silencing the Bulldog barks...
Untamed & Drenched. The first Californians. the Spanish, called it El Sur Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...
While they were still in the relative East, they ate three-star meals, with hot biscuits, fresh butter, honey, milk, cream, venison, wild peas, tea and coffee all included in a single typical dinner. Toward the other end, they ate rancid bacon, mountain sheep, red fox, and sometimes boiled hides. When they were dying of thirst, they drank mule urine. While 47 of the 87 members of the Donner Party were dying of hunger in 1846, there was some cannibalism. "What do you think I cooked this morning?" said Aunt Betsy Donner one day. "Shoemaker...
...deal with the Eskimos, but down to the New York fur auction to see how he would survive among the Seventh Avenue furriers. Murray succeeded so well that today the Bay's New York fur auction is the world's largest; ironically, though, it handles no wild fur-only tame, ranch-bred varieties...