Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia may have enough skill to win the game by itself but to assure a Lion victory, the generous Harvard eleven set up two of the opposing team a touch-downs. Already leading 6-0 in the second period, Columbia recovered a wild Crimson pass from center on the home team's 19 yard line and went on to score on a nine yard end sweep by Tom Haggerty...
...last June's Kremlin decree boosting the prices of meat and butter as much as 30%, a remarkable rumor filtered through the Iron Curtain: several hundred young Russian students and workers had been killed by police in the booming southern industrial city of Novocherkassk, near Rostov, in a wild night of rioting and pillaging touched off by the unexpected price increase...
...campaign trail, the ex-President looked and sounded like the old Quadros; so sure was he of victory that he introduced himself at rallies as "your governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering...
...married to Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, he is quieter. "I was a wild man," he says, "but that's not all. I'm an actor. That's my bloody business. I'm the hardest working actor I know." And he knows quite a few. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy play supporting roles to his T.E. Lawrence in a script written by Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons) and directed by David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai). All agree that Peter O'Toole...
...colony on Sakhalin Island. He built schools for peasants and treated their ills for nothing. But he could not shake off a medical man's distrust of all panaceas. Whether it was Communism, Tolstoy's windy plans for the spiritual regeneration of mankind, or Dostoevsky's wild chiaroscuro Christianity, Chekhov could see no practical help in any of them. "God preserve us from generalizations," he wrote. "There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble...