Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bail-enforcement agents" or "fugitive-recovery agents." There are more than 10,000 nationwide, and last year they found tens of thousands of fugitives, generally taking home a fee of about 10% of the bail in question. The profession dates back in the U.S. to the days of the Wild West, when shorthanded sheriffs had to enlist free-lance help in tracking down stagecoach robbers and cattle rustlers. Bounty hunters have been celebrated in popular culture--The Hunter, a Steve McQueen movie was inspired by the story of legendary bounty hunter Ralph Thorson, and Midnight Run presented Robert De Niro...
...novelist Colette was a very different figure. Indeed, her private life was so irregular by Catholic standards that the church forbade her a Catholic funeral in Notre Dame. The French government, sensing a public outcry, responded with the unprecedented gesture of giving sexy, wild, outrageous Colette a state funeral...
...Rosenblatt only touched on the tragedy that befell the Cambodian people at the hands of Pol Pot and his followers [ESSAY, Aug. 18]. It's difficult to imagine the hardship and cruelty that Cambodians endured during Pol Pot's reign of terror. But Rosenblatt apparently let his imagination run wild when he blamed the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War as the destabilizing influence that allowed Pol Pot to flourish. I could have sworn we were bombing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops that sought refuge in Cambodia after attacking our own troops in South Vietnam. VINCENT...
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through a land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast-- And half believe it true. --Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...with. Annual statewide salmon catches usually hover at around 200 million fish. To make matters worse, you urge consumers to "help out" by eating just farm-raised salmon! Sending that message to readers serves only to cripple further an industry that has steadily been losing market share for its wild, free-roaming salmon to those that are farmed. LAINE WELCH Kodiak, Alaska JUST SAY NO TO SHARK-FIN SOUP...