Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...When Mayor Lindsay and Sen. John Tower of Texas can agree on a Vietnam plank although one is a dove and one a super hawk, when Rockefeller can talk about winning (and the New York Times can try so hard to believe him) at a convention whose delegates go wild for Barry Goldwater and give a louder ovation to Max Rafferty than to Mayor Lindsay, when Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland can switch his allegiance from Rockefeller because of a personal slight and end up making the nominating speech for Nixon it makes me wonder about the efficacy...
...Luis Tiant 16. Gibson's record is 14-5, but the last time he lost was May 28. Since June 2, when he beat the New York Mets 6-3, he has pitched 90 innings and allowed just two runs-one of which scored on a wild pitch, the other on a base hit that was fair only by inches. Last week, Gibson blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, the only team he had not previously beaten this season, 5-0, for his eleventh straight victory and his eighth shutout of the year. His earned-run average at week...
...meets a boy, but he only adds to the uneasiness. A live ringer for her dead kin, he has this strange way of gazing at her. Is it love or a grim beckoning from the beyond? No firm answers are forthcoming, as past and present finally collide in a wild, whirling scene that ends not with a bang but a whaa...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and Iris cavalcade of stars brought a record-breaking crowd to Fenway Park last night for a rally while thousands more went wild in the streets outside...