Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those bored with the mountains and wildlife of the Grand Tetons might consider making the short drive south to Jackson, Wyoming. A booming ski town in winter, in the warmer months this town shows its wild West roots with a nightly spectacular, though somewhat hokey, shoot-out. In Jackson, those seeking to look the wild West part can shop for cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. After that, they can head on over to a saloon where saddles serve as bar stools and action centers on a mechanical bucking bronco...
...just cause. That doesn't mean that every just cause warrants intervention. To warrant intervention, a cause must at the same time be important to the U.S. The idea that importance ought not matter and that consistency impels us to intervene against every injustice is simply American moralism gone wild...
Wittingly or not, Saddam appeared to put greater pressure on himself to end the war too. The broadcast of the Revolutionary Command Council statement initially set off wild celebrations in Baghdad. Auto horns honked, people embraced each other in the streets and soldiers fired automatic weapons into the air, apparently in the belief that the war was as good as over. But as word of the long list of conditions circulated, the mood turned dejected, if not sullen. As an iron-fisted dictator who rules through fear, Saddam is immune to pressure from any Iraqi peace movement; there is none...
...justice. The disappearance of the 28-year-old woman in the game park in September 1988 became a cause celebre in the British press. After her mutilated and burned remains were found by Ward, who was accompanied by park rangers, Kenyan authorities said she had been eaten by wild animals. But Ward, the owner of a hotel chain, refused to accept the official verdict and uncovered evidence that his daughter had been hacked to death. He then went on to conduct his own probe to find the killers...
When Uno's played Madonna's "Vogue, says Harper, the Club MTV cast went wild. "People were dancing on chairs...