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Word: wildness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD SANCTUARY by William Harrison. 320 pages. Morrow. $6.95. Four Chicago grad students in a suicide pact that begins as a joke and ends with tragedy. Sensitive and full of suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Right about then, a squat, bull-necked dude, wild with drink, began elbowing his way through the crowd, bellowing for another Schlitz. He seemed to be the type that sends floral bouquets to funerals with the inscription "I AM VERY SORRY THAT IT HAD TO COME TO THIS" written on them. I loved the man, for I knew that he would provide the story. I had spent a lifetime waiting to write...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

Sophomore tailback Ed Marinaro ran wild for the Big Red, scoring five touchdowns and piling up 281 yards against Harvard's previously impregnable defense. It would have been asking a lot to expect even a consistent, explosive offense to compensate for such a performance, and the Crimson's attack was neither...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: MARINARO SCORES FIVE TIMES Crimson Upset at Ithaca | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

...WILD BUNCH. The place is the Tex-Mex border, around the turn of the century, where a group of freebooting bandits try to scrounge a living out of a life that is fast becoming obsolete. Director Sam Peckinpah explores this violent world with hard-edged poetry and a sense of visual splendor that establishes him as one of the best American film makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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