Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Washington's birthday was the perfect time, of course, for John LoGiudice to get punished for chopping down a cherry tree. He found the tree growing wild, about 25 years ago, in the backyard of his house in Queens, N.Y. He transplanted it out to the front, next to the public sidewalk, and there it grew. "We always took care of it," said LoGiudice, 66, a retired milkman. "It was a beautiful tree with pretty flowers blossoming every spring and nice healthy cherries...
...nation now seems to be achieving some new psychological equilibrium about families and children. The wild swoop from the excessively domestic '50s to the fierce social unbucklings of the '60s and early '70s left confusion and wreckage. A lot of menacing nonsense got flashed around and mingled with difficult truths. Generations bared their teeth at one another...
...some other OPEC nations have been pumping an extra 3 million bbl. per day at higher prices to offset some of Iran's export shortfall of 5.5 million bbl. per day, the net world loss of 2.5 million bbl. has still started what some oilmen describe as a wild scramble for crude in the free market. Since mid-December the spot price has nearly doubled, to at least $22 a barrel, vs. the OPEC cartel's price of $13.34. This windfall profit for European oil companies and oil traders acting as middlemen has riled the producing nations, which...
...passing to ask Congress to summon a convention themselves stipulate that budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them as a scare tactic; convention supporters seem perfectly willing to limit themselves...
...quite simply can never tell what will happen next in the emotion-charged atmosphere of an Easterns meet--witness Andy Saltzman's upset of Bobby Hackett and Harvard's wild finish in the 800 free relay last night. Or consider the unfortunate fact that Geoff Seelen banged his head on the starting block while pulling himself up for the start of the 100 backstroke after looking like a shoo-in for his first Eastern gold, and consequently had to settle for a silver...