Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
Democrats may have little fear of a Dole upset win, but they are worried that Republicans in tight House races will finally start campaigning on the line that they should be sent to Washington as a check on Clinton in his second term. Voters were not exactly wild about the first two years of the Clinton Administration, when he got a Democratic Congress and they got a very big health-care proposal but not the tax cut or welfare reform he had promised. Now pollsters for both parties are finding a significant quirk when people are asked, all other things...
...first part covers the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the Tower of Babel and establishes the basic premise of a God who acts in the history of his most problematic creation. The last three-quarters of Genesis, by contrast, is the wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property. Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph...
...openly racist, anti-Semitic views in Parliament and in the press. People began to realize that freedom of expression could mean skinhead demonstrations as well as democratic debate; self-government could mean an ugly strain of nationalism and xenophobia as well as independence; and economic liberalization could mean a "wild" brand of capitalism where a few people got immensely rich while the majority saw their prospects tumble...
...during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia, Lindy Chamberlain reported seeing her nine-week-old baby Azaria taken by a dingo, a wild Australian dog. The baby's body was never recovered. Based upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie...