Search Details

Word: wildness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...next one shows Wild Bill Hickok being shot in the back of the head while he plays poker. A boy's father is explaining to him, "There's Wild Bill Hickok gittin' it in the back of the head...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). A message written in hieroglyphics pulls Ancient Languages Professor Gregory Peck into a wild adventure, with Sophia Loren as part of the stakes in Arabesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both a fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the best Hollywood directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Picking tritons is illegal, but the law can't be policed. There are other, quite legal, ways in which we are steadily bringing about the end of the world. Just for an example, there's the Greenhouse Effect gone wild. Our heavy industry, oil heat, and combustion in general are putting too much CO2 into our air. CO2 in our atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun (reflected off the earth) as heat. This is called the Greenhouse Effect. It was important in the evolution of the earth into a life-supporting planet. The world is getting hotter and hotter...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: All About the End of the World | 10/1/1969 | See Source »

...music of life in France can be savage and wild one moment and tranquil and melancholy the next. In May the government had completely abdicated power and ten million workers had joined the students in the streets. Came September and not only were the students isolated from the population but again badly split among themselves...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next