Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Acting director of the United States Bureau of Land Management Sylvia Baca yesterday, concerning the federal government's new reghulations aimed at protecting wild horses...
...former college classmate put it, "a follow-the-rules type of guy." He seemed to be the last person anyone would have expected to break formation while flying a routine training mission with two other planes, and an unlikely person simply to vanish into the wild blue yonder with an $8.8 million, bomb-laden A-10 Thunderbolt...
Because eyewitness accounts indicate that Button was in control of the plane for most of its journey, his disappearance has sparked some wild theories. Among them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver courthouse where the Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother...
...side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse, the transition out of fertility, called perimenopause, is a time of wild hormone swings. And they can trigger a long list of problems, among them hot flashes, pimples, dry skin, insomnia, depression and lapses of memory...
Krakauer, a thoughtful man and a fine writer (his Into the Wild, a report of a wilderness death in Alaska, was one of the best nonfiction books of 1996), says the ratio of misery to pleasure on Everest was greater than on any other mountain he has climbed. He draws no ringing conclusions from the disaster, although he thinks that banning bottled oxygen might keep weaker climbers off the mountain...